James Hepperle v. James A. Johnston, Southern Methodist University’s Empirical Analysis
544 F.2d 201 · 1976
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2008
11 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in appraising the sufficiency of the complaint we follow, of course, the accepted rule that a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Preliminary Answer to Defendant SMU's Motion for More Definitive Statement, and My Motion for Discovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hepperle v. Johnston
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.