666 F. Supp. 2d 610 - Skillstorm, Inc. v. ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS, LLC’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Conley v. Gibson · Tellabs, Inc. v. Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd. · Mylan Laboratories, Inc. v. Matkari
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defamation must be pled with particularity under Virginia law....However, when a state claim is brought in federal court, a plaintiff need not satisfy the state's heightened pleading requirements to survive a Rule 12(b)(6) motion; the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure govern this pleading.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steele v. Goodman“must show 1) an agreement between two or more persons; 2) to participate in an unlawful act[...]; 3) an injury caused by an unlawful overt act performed by one of the parties to the agreement; and 4) that the overt act was done pursuant to and in furtherance of the common scheme.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steele v. Goodman
How this case has been treated — in progress
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