Shaw v. Valdez’s Empirical Analysis
819 F.2d 965 · 1987
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 85 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Phelps v. Wichita Eagle-Beacon (1989), Penelope Murrell Penelope Jones v. School District No Denver Colorado School District
11 federal appellate · 85 district · 8 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 501 (§ 301 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 503 (§ 303 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Mathews v. Eldridge · Goldberg v. Kelly · Stanley v. Illinois · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co.
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing a dismissal for failure to state a claim, we must accept as true the plaintiffs well-pleaded factual allegations and all reasonable inferences must be indulged in favor of the plaintiff. Dismissal is appropriate only if ‘it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.’ (Citations omitted.)”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“'we must accept as true the plaintiff's well-pleaded factual allegations and all reasonable inferences must be indulged in favor of the plaintiff. Dismissal is appropriate only if”
4 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.