Hasenfus v. LaJeunesse’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 federal appellate · 32 district · 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “truly outrageous, uncivilized, and intolerable,”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cummings v. City of Newton & Setti D. Warren in His Individual & Official Capacities · Harron v. Town of Franklin

2. “a state official acts so as to create or even markedly increase a risk.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Doucette v. Jacobs · 365 F. Supp. 3d 132 - Mccann On Behalf Of J.M. v. York School Dept.

3. “[W]e are loathe to conclude now and forever that inaction by a school toward a pupil could never give rise to a due process violation. From a commonsense vantage, [the plaintiff] is not just like a prisoner in custody who may be owed a broad (but far from absolute) “duty to protect.” But neither is she just like the young child in DeShaney who was at home in his father’s custody and merely subject to visits from busy social workers who neglected to intervene. For limited purposes and for a portion of the day, students are entrusted by their parents to the control and supervision of teachers in situations where — at least as to very young children — they are manifestly unable to look after themselves.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 164 F. Supp. 2d 127 - Willhauck v. Town of Mansfield