Miles v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

36 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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

1. ““[T]o be valid the act must be held to apply only to deprivation of federal rights. If it be so construed as to include deprivation of purely state rights, it would not seem to be within the Constitution.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Congress of Racial Equality v. Clemmons · Weise v. Reisner

2. ““In this situation it was wholly immaterial whether the court dismissed the claim because it was insufficient to state a federal cause of action or whether, believing such to be the ease, it dismissed the cause because it had no jurisdiction of the nonfederal action. Obviously, however, plaintiff’s rights on appeal would exist in either instance.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wood v. Dennis

3. ““Obviously before any liability will attach under this section, the acts complained of must have been done under color of authority of the state. Yet we find in the complaint no averment that defendants actually acted under color of any such prerogatives.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 227 F. Supp. 659 - Waters v. Paschen Contractors, Inc.