Pintar v. Houck’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Pearson v. Callahan · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · Duncan v. Walker
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because this is an appeal from the district court's grant of a motion to dismiss and grant of summary judgment, we recite the facts favorably to [Reynolds].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reynolds v. Woodall“designed to resolve ... controversies in order to curtail further problems.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.