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924 F.3d 611 · 2019

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
April 2025
most recently cited

4 district ·

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 · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pierson v. Ray · Stump v. Sparkman

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

  1. “isolate and ignore statements in the complaint that simply offer legal labels and conclusions or merely rehash cause-of-action elements[,]”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Plausible, of course, means something more than merely possible, and gauging a pleaded situation's plausibility is a context-specific job that compels us to draw on our judicial experience and common sense.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “may be raised in a motion to dismiss, provided that the facts establishing the defense are clear on the face of the plaintiff's pleadings.”
    3 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.