Powell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
945 F.2d 374 · 1991
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Marshall County Board of Education v. Marshall County Gas District (1993), Church of Scientology Flag Service Org., Inc. v. City of Clearwater (1993)
9 federal appellate ·
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 26 U.S.C. § 170
Relies on Hishon v. King & Spalding · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Epperson v. Arkansas · Zorach v. Clauson · Engel v. Vitale
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dismissal is appropriate where it is clear the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of the claims in the complaint. Accordingly, the court may dismiss a complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) when, on the basis of a dispositive issue of law, no construction of the factual allegations will support the cause of action.”
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.