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860 F.3d 287 · 2017

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
June 2025
most recently cited

2 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Foman v. Davis · Perry v. Sindermann

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.'”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[i]f the Court is inclined to dismiss any portion of Plaintiff's complaint for failure to state a claim, Plaintiff requests leave of court to amend his complaint to cure the alleged pleading deficiencies identified by Defendants ....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “a bare bones motion to amend remains futile when it 'fails to apprise the district court of the facts that he would plead in an amended complaint.'”
    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.