diff --git a/src/docstub-stubs/_stubs.pyi b/src/docstub-stubs/_stubs.pyi
index 87c2554..00d8104 100644
--- a/src/docstub-stubs/_stubs.pyi
+++ b/src/docstub-stubs/_stubs.pyi
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import enum
 import logging
+from collections.abc import Sequence
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from functools import wraps
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -34,6 +35,9 @@ class ScopeType(enum.StrEnum):
     CLASSMETHOD = "classmethod"
     STATICMETHOD = "staticmethod"
 
+_dataclass_name: cstm.Name
+_dataclass_matcher: cstm.ClassDef
+
 @dataclass(slots=True, frozen=True)
 class _Scope:
 
@@ -51,7 +55,7 @@ class _Scope:
 
 def _get_docstring_node(
     node: cst.FunctionDef | cst.ClassDef | cst.Module,
-) -> cst.SimpleString | cst.ConcatenatedString | None: ...
+) -> tuple[cst.SimpleString | cst.ConcatenatedString | None, str | None]: ...
 def _log_error_with_line_context(cls: Py2StubTransformer) -> Py2StubTransformer: ...
 def _docstub_comment_directives(cls: Py2StubTransformer) -> Py2StubTransformer: ...
 def _inline_node_as_code(node: cst.CSTNode) -> str: ...
diff --git a/src/docstub/_stubs.py b/src/docstub/_stubs.py
index 862e40e..94ce476 100644
--- a/src/docstub/_stubs.py
+++ b/src/docstub/_stubs.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 import enum
 import logging
+from collections.abc import Sequence
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from functools import wraps
 from typing import ClassVar
@@ -54,6 +55,22 @@ class ScopeType(enum.StrEnum):
     # docstub: on
 
 
+# To be used with `libcst.matchers.matches()` to guess if a node is a dataclass
+# See `test_dataclass_matcher` for supported cases
+_dataclass_name: cstm.Name = cstm.Name("dataclass")
+_dataclass_matcher: cstm.ClassDef = cstm.ClassDef(
+    decorators=[
+        cstm.Decorator(
+            decorator=(
+                _dataclass_name
+                | cstm.Call(func=_dataclass_name | cstm.Attribute(attr=_dataclass_name))
+                | cstm.Attribute(attr=_dataclass_name)
+            )
+        ),
+    ]
+)
+
+
 # TODO use `libcst.metadata.ScopeProvider` instead
 @dataclass(slots=True, frozen=True)
 class _Scope:
@@ -81,14 +98,8 @@ def is_class_init(self) -> bool:
 
     @property
     def is_dataclass(self) -> bool:
-        if cstm.matches(self.node, cstm.ClassDef()):
-            # Determine if dataclass
-            decorators = cstm.findall(self.node, cstm.Decorator())
-            is_dataclass = any(
-                cstm.findall(d, cstm.Name("dataclass")) for d in decorators
-            )
-            return is_dataclass
-        return False
+        is_dataclass = cstm.matches(self.node, _dataclass_matcher)
+        return is_dataclass
 
 
 def _get_docstring_node(node):
@@ -106,23 +117,35 @@ def _get_docstring_node(node):
     -------
     docstring_node : cst.SimpleString | cst.ConcatenatedString | None
         The node of the docstring if found.
+    docstring_value : str | None
+        The value of the docstring if found.
     """
-    docstring_node = None
-
-    docstring = node.get_docstring(clean=False)
-    if docstring:
-        # Workaround to find the exact postion of a docstring
-        # by using its node
-        string_nodes = cstm.findall(
-            node, cstm.SimpleString() | cstm.ConcatenatedString()
-        )
-        matching_nodes = [
-            node for node in string_nodes if node.evaluated_value == docstring
-        ]
-        assert len(matching_nodes) == 1
-        docstring_node = matching_nodes[0]
 
-    return docstring_node
+    # Copied from https://github.com/Instagram/LibCST/blob/9275a8bf7875d08659ce7b266860138bba633410/libcst/_nodes/statement.py#L1669
+    body = node.body
+    if isinstance(body, Sequence):
+        if body:
+            expr = body[0]
+        else:
+            return (None, None)
+    else:
+        expr = body
+    while isinstance(expr, (cst.BaseSuite, cst.SimpleStatementLine)):
+        if len(expr.body) == 0:
+            return (None, None)
+        expr = expr.body[0]
+    if not isinstance(expr, cst.Expr):
+        return (None, None)
+
+    docstring_node = expr.value
+    if isinstance(docstring_node, (cst.SimpleString, cst.ConcatenatedString)):
+        docstring_value = docstring_node.evaluated_value
+    else:
+        return (None, None)
+    if isinstance(docstring_value, bytes):
+        return (None, None)
+
+    return docstring_node, docstring_value
 
 
 def _log_error_with_line_context(cls):
@@ -897,7 +920,7 @@ def _annotations_from_node(self, node):
         """
         annotations = None
 
-        docstring_node = _get_docstring_node(node)
+        docstring_node, docstring_value = _get_docstring_node(node)
         if docstring_node:
             position = self.get_metadata(
                 cst.metadata.PositionProvider, docstring_node
@@ -907,7 +930,7 @@ def _annotations_from_node(self, node):
             )
             try:
                 annotations = DocstringAnnotations(
-                    docstring_node.evaluated_value,
+                    docstring_value,
                     transformer=self.transformer,
                     reporter=reporter,
                 )
diff --git a/tests/test_stubs.py b/tests/test_stubs.py
index 10dc36c..8d49dcf 100644
--- a/tests/test_stubs.py
+++ b/tests/test_stubs.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 import libcst.matchers as cstm
 import pytest
 
-from docstub._stubs import Py2StubTransformer, _get_docstring_node
+from docstub._stubs import Py2StubTransformer, _dataclass_matcher, _get_docstring_node
 
 
 class Test_get_docstring_node:
@@ -761,3 +761,27 @@ def foo(*args: str, **kwargs: int) -> None: ...
         transformer = Py2StubTransformer()
         result = transformer.python_to_stub(source)
         assert expected == result
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("decorators", "expected"),
+    [
+        ("@dataclass", True),
+        ("@dataclass(frozen=True)", True),
+        ("@dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)", True),
+        ("@dc.dataclass", True),
+        ("", False),
+        ("@other", False),
+        ("@other(dataclass=True)", False),
+    ],
+)
+def test_dataclass_matcher(decorators, expected):
+    source = dedent(
+        """
+        {decorators}
+        class Foo:
+            pass
+        """
+    ).format(decorators=decorators)
+    class_def = cst.parse_statement(source)
+    assert cstm.matches(class_def, _dataclass_matcher) is expected