Friedlander v. Nims’s Empirical Analysis
755 F.2d 810 · 1985
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Decker v. Glenfed, Inc. (1994), Rodriguez v. Doral Mortgage Corp. (1995)
30 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Goss v. Board of Education · Dussouy v. Gulf Coast Investment Corp. · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court considering a motion to dismiss for failure to plead fraud with particularity should always be careful to harmonize the directives of Rule 9(b) with the broader policy of notice pleadings.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a district court should give a plaintiff an opportunity to amend his complaint rather than dismiss it when it appears that a more carefully drafted complaint might state a claim upon which relief could be granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barnett v. Bailey““[The] clear intent [of Rule 9(b)] is to eliminate fraud actions in which all the facts are learned through discovery after the complaint is filed.””
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.