Parkhurst v. Tabor’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.3d 861 · 2009
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably ABF Freight System, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters (2011), Ulrich v. Pope County (2013)
4 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Iowa Southern District Court)
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 · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Neitzke v. Williams · Allen v. Wright · Linda R. S. v. Richard D.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To survive a motion to dismiss, a complaint must contain factual allegations sufficient `to raise a right to relief above the speculative level. . . .'”
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.