Stanard v. Nygren’s Empirical Analysis
658 F.3d 792 · 2011
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 7201
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Foman v. Davis · Bennett v. Schmidt · Killingsworth v. HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A. · Anderson v. District Board of Trustees of Central Florida Community College
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires parties to make their pleadings straightforward, so that judges and adverse parties need not try to fish a gold coin from a bucket of mud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A federal court is not obligated to sift through a complaint to extract some merit when the attorney who drafted it has failed to do so himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“repeatedly failed to follow explicit directions from the district court about how to correct specific problems in the first two complaints.”
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.