550 U.S. 544 (2007) Cited 280,791 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
Holding complaint must "contain inferential allegations from which [the court] can identify each of the material elements necessary to sustain a recovery"
Holding that the language in the Equal Protection Clause "may, as it does here, simply operate at too high a level of generality" to make prior case law unnecessary, and that the broad legal principles in "class of one" cases were inapplicable because "the precise facts of a case are critical in evaluating a 'class of one' claim"
Holding use of K9 force during arrest—including 31 dog bites—was reasonable because arrestee was suspected of committing serious crimes, actively fled from police, and police thought he might be armed
Holding that furniture company's relationship with its 89,000 past customers was not one upon which a tortious interference claim could be based because the company's hope that some of its past customers would continue to buy furniture from it was mere "speculation"
Holding that a governmental entity's employees, acting as agents of that entity, "are deemed incapable of conspiring among themselves" or with the entity under § 1985
Fla. Stat. § 542.335 Cited 314 times 45 Legal Analyses
Instructing the court to presume a time restraint of five years or less to be reasonable and a time restraint of greater than ten years to be unreasonable