Dockery v. Barnett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate ·

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. “[T]he issue is better reserved for a jury—especially considering that . . . plaintiffs in this case are autistic children, who are more vulnerable and less capable of communicating than other children.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 639 F. Supp. 2d 1295 - Gc v. School Bd. of Seminole County, Florida · 636 F. Supp. 2d 1317 - MS Ex Rel. Soltys v. SEMINOLE COUNTY SCHOOL BD.

2. “`court must look to such factors as the need for the application of force, the relationship between the need and the amount of force that was used, the extent of injury inflicted, and whether force was applied in a good faith effort to maintain or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 636 F. Supp. 2d 1317 - MS Ex Rel. Soltys v. SEMINOLE COUNTY SCHOOL BD.

3. “[p]laintiffs have not fared well where psychological damage forms either the sole basis of or is an element of the plaintiff's substantive due process claim,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tw Ex Rel. Wilson v. School Bd., Seminole, Fla.