Rannels v. S. E. Nichols, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
591 F.2d 242 · 1979
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably 334 Pa. Super. 295 - Agriss v. Roadway Express, Inc. (1984), 340 Pa. Super. 253 - Gordon v. Lancaster Osteopathic Hospital Ass'n (1985)
9 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Foman v. Davis · Continental Collieries, Inc. v. Shober · Nelson v. Keefer · Altman v. Standard Refrig. Co., Inc.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“give the defendant fair notice of what the plaintiffs claim is and the grounds upon which it rests. The illustrative forms amended to the Rules plainly demonstrate this. Such simplified “notice pleading” is made possible by the liberal opportunity for discovery and the other pretrial procedures established by the Rules to disclose more precisely the basis of both claim and defense and to define more narrowly the disputed facts and issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is whether a particular publication is defamatory on its face (“defamatory per se,” “libelous per se,” or “slander ous per se”). This latter determination is strictly procedural and means only that an “innuendo” must be or need not be pleaded. The authorities tell us that these pleading requirements are ofttimes ridiculous and frequently result in injustice. McCormick, Damages § 113 at 417-419; Prosser, Torts § 92 at 79 et seq. (2d ed.).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A pleading which sets forth a claim for relief ... shall contain (1) a short and plain statement of the grounds upon which the court’s jurisdiction depends ... [and] (2) a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief____”
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.