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901 F.2d 1571 · 1990

Citation profile

150
cited by 150 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
June 2019
most recently cited

60 federal appellate · 2 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 150 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably GJR Investments, Inc. v. County of Escambia (1998), Stephens v. Secretary (1990)

60 federal appellate · 2 district ·

600199020002010decided

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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 5 U.S.C. § 1205 · 5 U.S.C. § 1214 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 701

Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Connick v. Myers · Rankin v. McPherson · Bush v. Lucas · United States v. Fausto

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

  1. “On a motion to dismiss, the facts stated in appellant's complaint and all reasonable inferences therefrom are taken as true.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “The standard of review for a motion to dismiss is the same for the appellate court as it was for the trial court.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “Congress has provided what it considers adequate remedial mechanisms for constitutional violations that may occur in the course of its administration”
    2 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.