Nos. 93-55478, 93-55695’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
15 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Delta Savings Bank California Savings Association, Don Laub (2003)
15 district · 6 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 Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Carnegie v. United States · Mertens v. Hewitt Associates · Brame v. United States
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires that plaintiffs specifically plead those facts surrounding alleged acts of fraud to which they can reasonably be expected to have access.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in cases where fraud is alleged, we relax pleading requirements where the relevant facts are known only to the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f the plaintiff is unsuccessful in challenging the district court's action, then the dismissal operates as an adjudication on the merits and the litigation is terminated.”
2 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.