91 Cited authorities

  1. Ashcroft v. Iqbal

    556 U.S. 662 (2009)   Cited 249,650 times   279 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a claim is plausible where a plaintiff's allegations enable the court to draw a "reasonable inference" the defendant is liable
  2. Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

    550 U.S. 544 (2007)   Cited 263,703 times   364 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a complaint's allegations should "contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face' "
  3. Hemi Group, LLC v. City of New York

    559 U.S. 1 (2010)   Cited 755 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the defendant retailer's failure to make state-law-required disclosures that would make it easier for the City to recover delinquent taxes did not proximately cause the City's injury, which more directly came from the delinquent taxpayers themselves
  4. Dolan v. Postal Service

    546 U.S. 481 (2006)   Cited 626 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "negligent transmission" of postal matter "does not comprehend all negligence occurring in the course of mail delivery"
  5. General Dynamics Land Sys. v. Cline

    540 U.S. 581 (2004)   Cited 393 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the word “age” has different meanings in different parts of the ADEA
  6. Lerner v. Fleet Bank, N.A.

    459 F.3d 273 (2d Cir. 2006)   Cited 1,179 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that an aiding and abetting claim under New York law requires "an allegation that such defendant had actual knowledge of the breach of duty"
  7. Southland Securities v. Inspire Ins. Solutions

    365 F.3d 353 (5th Cir. 2004)   Cited 1,138 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Holding that when determining whether a statement made by a corporation was made with scienter it is “appropriate to look to the state of mind of the individual corporate official or officials who make or issue the statement ... rather than generally to the collective knowledge of all the corporation's officers and employees”
  8. Staehr v. Hartford Financial Serv

    547 F.3d 406 (2d Cir. 2008)   Cited 850 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that matters judicially noticed by a court "are not considered matters outside the pleadings"
  9. Faulkner v. Beer

    463 F.3d 130 (2d Cir. 2006)   Cited 611 times
    Holding that “if a plaintiff had not received a copy of [documents referenced in the contract], then that plaintiff's claims could not be dismissed based on warnings of risk in those documents”
  10. Amidax Trading Group v. S.W.I.F.T. SCRL

    671 F.3d 140 (2d Cir. 2011)   Cited 508 times
    Holding that a court may look to documents attached to the complaint to determine whether an allegation should be "accepted as true"
  11. Rule 9 - Pleading Special Matters

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 9   Cited 38,651 times   316 Legal Analyses
    Permitting "[m]alice, intent, knowledge, and other conditions of a person's mind [to] be alleged generally"
  12. Section 1341 - Frauds and swindles

    18 U.S.C. § 1341   Cited 13,344 times   102 Legal Analyses
    Relating to mail fraud
  13. Section 1343 - Fraud by wire, radio, or television

    18 U.S.C. § 1343   Cited 11,837 times   167 Legal Analyses
    Barring fraudulent schemes "for obtaining money or property"
  14. Section 1001 - Statements or entries generally

    18 U.S.C. § 1001   Cited 7,296 times   296 Legal Analyses
    Making false statements
  15. Section 1344 - Bank fraud

    18 U.S.C. § 1344   Cited 4,880 times   58 Legal Analyses
    Defining the maximum prison terms for wire fraud that affects a financial institution and bank fraud, which define the penalties for the conspiracy crime that Anderson pleaded guilty to according to 18 U.S.C. § 1349, as "not more than 30 years"
  16. Section 982 - Criminal forfeiture

    18 U.S.C. § 982   Cited 2,127 times   19 Legal Analyses
    Allowing forfeiture as part of the court "imposing sentence on a person convicted of an offense"
  17. Section 287 - False, fictitious or fraudulent claims

    18 U.S.C. § 287   Cited 1,363 times   34 Legal Analyses
    Penalizing false claims against U.S. government
  18. Section 24 - Corporate powers of associations

    12 U.S.C. § 24   Cited 660 times   43 Legal Analyses
    Authorizing banks "[t]o exercise . . . all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt . . . and by obtaining, issuing, and circulating notes"
  19. Section 2 - Jurisdiction of Commission; liability of principal for act of agent; Commodity Futures Trading Commission; transaction in interstate commerce

    7 U.S.C. § 2   Cited 505 times   54 Legal Analyses
    Adopting respondeat superior principles for regulatory actions brought by the Commodity Exchange Commission
  20. Section 20 - Financial institution defined

    18 U.S.C. § 20   Cited 225 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Defining financial institution