162 Wis. 2d 574 - Lewis v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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

1. “Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage . . . subjects, or causes to be subjected, any . . . person ... to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress. . ..”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 176 Wis. 2d 440 - Casteel v. Kolb

2. “This is where the Parratt rule comes into play. Parratt and Hudson represent a special case of the general Mathews v. Eldridge analysis, in which postdeprivation tort remedies are all the process that is due, simply because they are the only remedies the State could be expected to provide.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 176 Wis. 2d 440 - Casteel v. Kolb

3. “The deprivation here is 'unauthorized' only in the sense that it was not an act sanctioned by state law, but, instead, was a 'depriv[ation] of constitutional rights... by an official's abuse of his position.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 176 Wis. 2d 440 - Casteel v. Kolb