Murphy v. Lancaster’s Empirical Analysis
960 F.2d 746 · 1992
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2011
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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 Conley v. Gibson · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Neitzke v. Williams · Smith v. Boyd · Williams v. White
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“case should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim 'unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 91-3234“when it is patently obvious that the plaintiff could not prevail based on the facts alleged in the complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the well-pleaded factual allegations in [the] ... complaint must be accepted as true,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 91-3234
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.