Gregg v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
771 F.2d 539 · 1985
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 27 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Taylor v. Resolution Trust Corp. (1995), Michel v. Anderson (1994)
11 federal appellate · 27 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 · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. · Stanley v. Georgia
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For purposes of determining whether a plaintiff has failed to state a cause of action, the factual allegations of the complaint must be taken as true, and any ambiguities or doubts must be resolved in favor of the pleader. Despite this generous standard, the complaint must set forth sufficient information to suggest that there exists some recognized legal theory upon which relief can be granted. A court must dismiss a complaint where, even assuming all the factual allegations are true, the plaintiff has failed to establish a right to relief based upon those facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right to receive information, however, is not established in every case where a person wishes to receive information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a verbatim transcript of the proceedings of Congress”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Forte v. Sullivan
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.