Lovelace v. Software Spectrum Inc’s Empirical Analysis
78 F.3d 1015 · 1996
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 323 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably In re Burlington Coat Factory Securities Litigation (1997), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. St. Francis Xavier Parochial School (1997)
44 federal appellate · 16 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 Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Washington Post Co. v. Rebozo · Kramer v. Time Warner Inc. · Tuchman v. DSC Communications Corp.
Most-quoted passages
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“only for the purpose of determining what statements the documents contain, not to prove the truth of the documents' contents.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are relevant not to prove the truth of their contents but only to determine what the documents stated”). In the instant case, the propriety of considering the SEC documents arose in a context in which the truth of the statements made in the documents would not be relevant; rather, the only relevance would be what statements the documents actually contain. Defendants' motion to dismiss attached the SEC documents in support of two defenses: the”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n deciding a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, courts must limit their inquiry to the facts stated in the complaint and the documents either attached to or incorporated in the complaint.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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