Allard v. Weitzman’s Empirical Analysis
991 F.2d 1236 · 1993
Citation profile
124 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 522 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Weiner Dpm v. Klais and Company Inc (1997), Lillard v. Shelby County Board of Education (1996)
124 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 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 · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Mayers v. United States · Barton v. Barbour
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 522 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In practice, “a ... complaint must contain either direct or inferential allegations respecting all the material elements to sustain a recovery under some viable legal theory.””
43 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Trustees, receivers or managers of any property, including debtors in possession, may be sued, without leave of the court appointing them, with respect to any of their acts or transactions in carrying on business connected with such property.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that leave of the appointing forum must be obtained by any party wishing to institute an action in a non-appointing forum against a trustee, for acts done in the trustee's official capacity and within the trustee's authority as an officer of the court.”
5 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.