Sweatman v. Giles’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Helling v. McKinney · Lassiter v. Alabama · Nance by and Through Nance v. Matthews
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' Jimmy Day Plumbing & Heating, Inc. v. Smith , 964 So.2d 1 , 9 (Ala. 2007) (quoting Butler v. Town of Argo , 871 So.2d 1 , 20 (Ala. 2003), quoting in turn Dykes v. Lane Trucking, Inc. , 652 So.2d 248 , 251 (Ala. 1994) ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““ ‘[A] motion to dismiss is typically not the appropriate vehicle by which to assert qualified immunity or State-agent immunity and ... normally the determination as to the existence of such a defense should be reserved until the summary-judgment stage, following appropriate discovery.’ Ex parte Alabama Dep’t of Mental Health & Mental Retardation, 837 So.2d 808, 813-14 (Ala.2002).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.