550 U.S. 544 (2007) Cited 273,590 times 368 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 that a complaint fails to state a claim unless the well-pled factual allegations of the complaint nudge the claims across the line from conceivable to plausible
Holding that “[d]efendants whose fraud prevents preexisting inflation in a stock price from dissipating are just as liable as defendants whose fraud introduces inflation into the stock price in the first instance”
Holding that it is appropriate to consider a document attached to a motion to dismiss when "a plaintiff refers to a document in its complaint, the document is central to its claim, its contents are not in dispute, and the defendant attaches the document to its motion to dismiss"
Holding that the plaintiff’s suit was not barred by the statute of limitation because "in a claim for economic injury sustained due to reliance upon false information negligently provided by a defendant, the statute of limitation begins to run when the plaintiff suffers pecuniary loss with certainty, and not as a matter of pure speculation"
Stating that as a "general rule," a contract action "shall be brought in the name of the party in whom the legal interest in the contract is vested," or by "[t]he beneficiary of a contract . . . against the promisor on the contract"