Erickson v. Pardus’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
575 federal appellate · 3,097 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10,044 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Phillips v. County of Allegheny (2008), Bridge v. Phoenix Bond & Indemnity Co. (2008)
575 federal appellate · 3,097 district · 20 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Conley v. Gibson · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Estelle v. Gamble · Neitzke v. Williams
Cited together with Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Conley v. Gibson · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · Scheuer v. Rhodes
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 10,044 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.”
97 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to less stringent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers.”
59 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen ruling on a defendant's motion to dismiss, a judge must accept as true all of the factual allegations contained in the complaint.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.