Bayron v. Trudeau’s Empirical Analysis
702 F.2d 43 · 1983
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Franklin v. Murphy (1984), Salahuddin v. Cuomo (1988)
32 federal appellate · 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 · Haines v. Kerner · Bounds v. Smith · Procunier v. Martinez · Cooper v. Pate
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Salahuddin v. Cuomo“[d]efendants decline to waive their right to service of the complaint and will not defend this appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Massop v. Coughlin
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.