M.S. v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · New York v. United States · Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. United States Ex Rel. Stevens
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“refusing to issue driver cards because a referendum motivated by discriminatory animus prevents them from doing so; they cannot issue driver cards because no valid, existing Oregon law authorizes them to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. M.S. v. Brown“only the voters' rejection of Measure 88-and, by extension, of SB 833-and the State's alleged refusal to implement SB 833 as a result of the referendum.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. M.S. v. Brown“[p]rinciples of federalism underlying the Tenth and Eleventh Amendments forbid [it] from directing the State to enact or enforce state laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. M.S. v. Brown
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.