Mchenry v. Renne

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that a court may dismiss an action for noncompliance with Rule 8 after considering less drastic alternatives
• concluding that a court may dismiss an action for noncompliance with Rule 8 after considering less drastic alternatives
• concluding that a court may dismiss an action for noncompliance with Rule 8 after considering less drastic alternatives
• concluding that a court may dismiss an action for noncompliance with Rule 8 after considering less drastic alternatives
• concluding that a court may dismiss an action for noncompliance with Rule 8 after considering less drastic alternatives
• holding that a complaint must at least allow defendants to determine “what [they] are being sued for”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

77 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Alston v. Parker
  Third Circuit· 2004-04-05· cited 1,094×
• Bautista v. Los Angeles County
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-06-20· cited 758×
• Mann v. Boatright
  Tenth Circuit· 2007-02-15· cited 642×
• Eric Knapp v. Hogan
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-12-26· cited 586×
• O'NEAL v. Price
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-07-14· cited 575×
• Ove v. Gwinn
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-09-04· cited 335×
• Hearns v. San Bernardino Police Department
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-07-01· cited 219×
• In Re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation
  S.D. New York· 2003-02-19· cited 193×
• Neveu v. City of Fresno
  E.D. California· 2005-07-15· cited 83×
• Brandon Briskin v. Shopify, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2025-04-21· cited 47×
• Cellars v. Pacific Coast Packaging, Inc.
  N.D. California· 1999-12-23· cited 39×
• David Merritt v. Countrywide Financial Corporat
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-07-16· cited 38×
• Flores v. EMC Mortgage Co.
  E.D. California· 2014-02-18· cited 35×
• Alliedsignal, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. City of Phoenix
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-06-28· cited 30×
• Nguyen v. CTS Electronics Manufacturing Solutions Inc.
  N.D. California· 2014-01-06· cited 28×
• Sapiro v. Encompass Insurance
  N.D. California· 2004-04-30· cited 26×
• Herrejon v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC
  E.D. California· 2013-11-01· cited 25×
• Patel v. Parnes
  C.D. California· 2008-05-19· cited 25×
• Committee for Immigrant Rights v. County of Sonoma
  N.D. California· 2009-07-31· cited 22×
• Morrison v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-03-13· cited 20×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit
  Supreme Court· 1993-03-03· cited 2,968×
• McHenry v. Renne
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-05-28· cited 1,221×
• Jerry L. Branch, Valenna Branch, Colby Branch v. Dale L. Tunnell, Individually and as Special Agent of Bureau of Land Management, State of Montana
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-01-12· cited 1,208×
• Joseph Nevijel v. North Coast Life Insurance Co., a Washington Corporation
  Ninth Circuit· 1981-07-23· cited 689×
• Kurt Von Poppenheim v. Portland Boxing & Wrestling Commission
  Ninth Circuit· 1971-08-09· cited 105×
• Branch v. Tunnell
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-06-27· cited 102×
• Gilbert Schmidt v. Karl Herrmann
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-03-26· cited 78×