Adams v. Bain’s Empirical Analysis
697 F.2d 1213 · 1982
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 99 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 490 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Osborn v. United States (1990), Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad v. United States (1991)
49 federal appellate · 99 district · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co.
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 490 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a complaint simply fails to allege facts upon which subject matter jurisdiction can be based[,] ... all the facts alleged in the complaint are assumed to be true and the plaintiff, in effect, is afforded the same procedural protection as he would receive under a Rule 12(b)(6) consideration.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a plaintiff colorably states facts which, if proven, would entitle him to relief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fail[s] to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.”
3 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.