Oscar’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 18 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Branch v. Tunnell (1994), Barnett v. Centoni (1994)
36 federal appellate · 18 district · 6 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 · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. v. California State Council of Carpenters · Jenkins v. McKeithen · Reiter v. Sonotone Corp.
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“not mere 'injury to a valuable intangible property interest'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“RICO was intended to combat organized crime, not to provide a federal cause of action and treble damages to every tort plaintiff.”
6 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.