Howland v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 10 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 34 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, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof 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. Owens v. City of Phoenix

2. “The United States Supreme Court has held that where a prisoner does not allege that a prison employee acted pursuant to established state procedures, an “unauthorized intentional deprivation of property, by a state employee does not constitute a violation of the procedural requirement of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment if a meaningful post deprivation remedy for the loss is available.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tripati v. State

3. “[p]ersons who have claims against a public entity or public employee shall file such claims in the same manner as that prescribed in the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 4(D)[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lee v. State