People v. Gary M.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 6 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the State[,] is not merely an observer of the discrimination, but a significant participant.... The only thing the State does not do is make the decision to discriminate. Everything else is done or supplied by the State,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co. · Thaddeus Donald Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company, Inc.