Westfall v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 868 · 1996
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Southland Securities Corp. v. Inspire Insurance Solutions Inc. (2004), Goldstein
8 federal appellate · 1 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 · Northeastern Florida Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America v. City of Jacksonville · American Waste & Pollution Control Co. v. Browning-Ferris, Inc. · Steele v. National Firearms ACT Branch
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`strain to find inferences favorable to the plaintiffs.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the facts alleged... as true and construe[s] the allegations in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.”
2 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.