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Dale Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

72
cited by 72 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

6 district · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Wolff v. McDonnell · Daniels v. Williams

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

  1. “it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts that would entitle him to relief.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Southern Christian Leadership Conference v. Supreme Court of State of La. · 370 F. Supp. 2d 552 - In Re American Airlines, Inc., Privacy Litigation
  2. “The complaint must be liberally construed in favor of the plaintiff, and all the facts pleaded in the complaint must be taken as true”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In the Matter of Carl A. Dengel, Debtor. R. Michael Bolen, United States Trustee, Region 5 v. Carl A. Dengel, Carl A. Dengel v. Bank One, National Association, Successor by Name Change to Bank One, Louisiana, National Association & Successor by Merger & Name Change to First National Bank of Commerce · Haynes v. Prudential Health Care US Sls
  3. “The liability of private defendants for actions taken at the direction of [federal] agents acting within their authority is a unique federal interest. Private businesses and individuals provide invaluable assistance as informants who provide evidence against law violators or, as in this instance, lend credibility to [ATF] undercover operations. If private businesses were not eligible for immunity from state law claims arising from assisting undercover federal operations, this would provide a major disincentive to assisting law enforcement and would undermine the needs and interests of the federal government.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. U.S. Tobacco Coop., Inc. v. Big S. Wholesale of Va., LLC

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.