Johnson v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
566 F.2d 1016 · 1978
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2012 · most notably Rummel v. Estelle (1980), Menchaca v. Chrysler Credit Corp. (1980)
48 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Brown v. Lundgren
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is axiomatic that a motion to dismiss an action for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted admits the facts alleged in the complaint, but challenges plaintiff's right to relief based upon those facts.”
1 later decision 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.