Carter v. Greenhow’s Empirical Analysis

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34 federal appellate · 16 district · 9 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “held as a matter of pleading that the particular cause of action set up in the plaintiff's pleading was in contract and was not to redress deprivation of the right secured to him by that clause of the Constitution [the contract clause], to which he had chosen not to resort.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Dennis v. Higgins

2. “any right, privilege, or immunity, secured by the Constitution of the United States, or of any right secured by any law providing for equal rights of citizens of the United States, or of all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Organization

3. “any person who, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, shall subject, or cause to be subjected, any inhabitant of any State ... to the deprivation of any right secured or protected by this act”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization