Sinclair v. Kleindienst’s Empirical Analysis
711 F.2d 291 · 1983
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 83 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Victor H. Sparrow, Iii, v. United Air Lines, Inc., et al. (2000), Doe v. United States Department of Justice (1985)
36 federal appellate · 83 district ·
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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · Goldlawr, Inc. v. Heiman · Dubin v. United States
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'short and plain statement of the claim' that will give the defendant fair notice of the plaintiff's claim and the grounds upon which it rests.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“do not require a claimant to set out the precise facts on which the claim is based.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.