35 Cited authorities

  1. Ashcroft v. Iqbal

    556 U.S. 662 (2009)   Cited 264,376 times   281 Legal Analyses
    Holding court need not credit "mere conclusory statements" in complaint
  2. Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

    550 U.S. 544 (2007)   Cited 277,581 times   369 Legal Analyses
    Holding that allegations of conduct that are merely consistent with wrongdoing do not state a claim unless "placed in a context that raises a suggestion of" such wrongdoing
  3. Papasan v. Allain

    478 U.S. 265 (1986)   Cited 17,328 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that Ex parte Young would not support a suit against a state for ongoing liability for an alleged past breach of trust, since "continuing payment of the income from the lost corpus is essentially equivalent in economic terms to a one-time restoration of the lost corpus itself"
  4. Irwin v. Dep't of Veterans Affairs

    498 U.S. 89 (1990)   Cited 4,621 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a statutory time limit with the same characteristics is subject to equitable tolling
  5. Merrell Dow Pharms. Inc. v. Thompson

    478 U.S. 804 (1986)   Cited 3,613 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that private actors have no federal cause of action for a violation of the Federal Drug and Cosmetic Act
  6. United States v. Nordic Village, Inc.

    503 U.S. 30 (1992)   Cited 1,813 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the existence of "plausible" interpretations that would not permit recovery "is enough to establish that a reading imposing monetary liability on the Government is not ‘unambiguous' and therefore should not be adopted"
  7. United States v. Mitchell

    445 U.S. 535 (1980)   Cited 2,396 times
    Holding that the United States does not have a specific fiduciary obligation to manage timber resources on allotted lands, held in trust for Indian-allotees
  8. Weiland v. Palm Beach Cnty. Sheriff's Office

    792 F.3d 1313 (11th Cir. 2015)   Cited 2,599 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the "conclusory allegation that the Sheriff’s Office was ‘on notice’ of the need to ‘promulgate, implement, and/or oversee’ policies pertaining to the ‘use of force’ " was insufficient when the claim arose from a single incident involving two deputies
  9. Ramming v. U.S.

    281 F.3d 158 (5th Cir. 2001)   Cited 3,580 times
    Holding that a court ruling on a Rule 12(b) motion may evaluate “ the complaint alone, the complaint supplemented by undisputed facts evidenced in the record, or the complaint supplemented by undisputed facts plus the court's resolution of disputed facts”
  10. Collins v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

    224 F.3d 496 (5th Cir. 2000)   Cited 3,665 times
    Holding that a court may consider “[d]ocuments that a defendant attaches to a motion to dismiss ... if they are referred to in the plaintiff's complaint and are central to her claim” (quoting Venture Assocs. Corp. v. Zenith Data Sys. Corp., 987 F.2d 429, 431 (7th Cir.1993) )
  11. Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 12   Cited 358,800 times   954 Legal Analyses
    Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss
  12. Rule 8 - General Rules of Pleading

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 8   Cited 162,588 times   197 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "[e]very defense to a claim for relief in any pleading must be asserted in the responsive pleading. . . ."
  13. Rule 10 - Form of Pleadings

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 10   Cited 20,360 times   10 Legal Analyses
    Holding exhibits attached to complaint may be treated as part of complaint for purposes of ruling on 12(b) motion
  14. Rule 25 - Substitution of Parties

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 25   Cited 11,151 times   11 Legal Analyses
    Providing for the automatic substitution at the district-court level of public officers sued in their official capacities