McHenry’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
17 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 241 F. Supp. 2d 281 - In Re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation (2003), Marica Ove
17 district · 1 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 Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit · Branch v. Tunnell · McCalden v. California Library Ass'n · Branch v. Tunnell · Nevijel v. North Coast Life Insurance
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he complaint ... is argumentative, prolix, replete with redundancy, and largely irrelevant. It consists largely of immaterial background information.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Prolix, confusing complaints such as the ones plaintiffs filed in this case impose unfair burdens on litigants and judges. As a practical matter, the judge and opposing counsel, in order to perform their responsibilities, cannot use a complaint such as the one plaintiffs filed.... ... Something labeled a complaint but written more as a press release, prolix in evidentiary detail, yet without simplicity, conciseness and clarity as to whom plaintiffs are suing for what wrongs, fails to perform the essential functions of a complaint.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.”
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.