Alvarez v. Galetka’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2023
19 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.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Hill v. Lockhart · St. Benedict's Development Co. v. St. Benedict's Hospital · State v. Templin
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[rJule 12(b)(6) concerns the sufficiency of the pleadings, not the underlying merits of a particular casel[,] ... the issue before the court is whether the petitioner has alleged enough in the complaint to state a cause of action, and this preliminary question is asked and answered before the court conducts any hearings on the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6) generally is not final or on the merits and the court normally will give plaintiff leave to file an amended complaint”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i}t is clear that rule 12(b)(6) of the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure does apply to [Rule 65B] petitions.”
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.