Pitta v. Medeiros’s Empirical Analysis
2024
Citation profile
3 district ·
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Massachusetts District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1508 · 20 U.S.C. § 1400 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975) · 20 U.S.C. § 1401 · 20 U.S.C. § 1414 · 20 U.S.C. § 1415 · 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 · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If [a] complaint fails to include 'factual allegations, either direct or inferential, respecting each material element necessary to sustain recovery under some actionable legal theory,' it should be dismissed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To survive a motion to dismiss, [a] complaint must 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face . . . .'”
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.