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← 119 FSUPP2D 346 - Romer v. Morgenthau

Romer v. Morgenthau’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
June 2019
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 2 district ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1293 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E

Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In order to maintain an action under Section 1985, a plaintiff must provide some factual basis supporting a meeting of the minds, such that defendants entered into an agreement, express or tacit, to achieve the unlawful end.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Benzinger v. Nysarc, Inc. · Alharbi v. Miller
  2. “Also the DA defendants, unlike the DOCS defendants, respond to Romer’s complaint as an individual capacity suit, asserting qualified and absolute immunity defenses rather than an Eleventh Amendment-based defense, which further suggests that the complaint is not ambiguous in this respect.”). 69 . See also Oliver Sch. v. Foley, 930 F.2d 248 , 252-253 (2d Cir.1991) (vacating district court order dismissing represented plaintiff's claims against defendant in their personal capacities because”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Dawkins v. Williams
  3. “[I]f a plaintiff cannot sufficiently allege a violation of his rights, it follows that he cannot sustain a claim of conspiracy to violate those rights.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Udechukwu v. City of N.Y.

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.