Leon v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably NY Univ. v. CONT'L INS CO (1995), Karaha Bodas Co. v. Perusahaan Pertambangan Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Negara (2002)
9 federal appellate · 42 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.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]n a motion to dismiss pursuant to CPLR 3211, the pleading is to be afforded a liberal construction. We accept the facts as alleged in the complaint as true, accord plaintiffs the benefit of every possible favorable inference, and determine only whether the facts as alleged fit within any cognizable legal theory”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(aln assignment may properly relate to a future or conditional right which is adequately identified.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the criterion is whether the proponent of the pleading has a cause of action, not whether he has stated one”
1 later decision 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.