Bower v. Weisman’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably 87 Ohio App. 3d 704 - Brown v. Scioto Cty. Bd. of Commrs. (1993), In Re Health Management, Inc. Securities Litigation (1997)
2 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 9 U.S.C. § 3
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Scheuer v. Rhodes · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Hanson v. Denckla
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.
“If a pleading to which a responsive pleading is permitted is so vague or ambiguous that a party cannot reasonably be required to frame a responsive pleading, the party may move for a more definite statement before interposing a responsive pleading.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“GOLP Rep. Mem.”) at 2-5. . See Plaintiff's Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Defendants’ Motion for a More Definite Statement Pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(e)(”
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.