Sherman v. Yakahi’s Empirical Analysis
549 F.2d 1287 · 1977
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Gibson v. United States (1986), Jones v. Community Redevelopment Agency of Los AngeLes (1984)
42 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Conclusionary allegations, unsupported by facts, [will be] rejected as insufficient to state a claim under the Civil Rights Act.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'it appears beyond doubt that plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a pleading will not be sufficient to state a claim under the Civil Rights Act if the allegations are mere conclusions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keniston v. Roberts · 129 F.3d 125
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.