Cabot v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · North Carolina v. Alford · Heck v. Humphrey · Teague v. Lane · Preiser v. Rodriguez
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.
“appl[ies] with equal weight to state-law claims. The favorable-termination requirement was intended to prevent collateral attacks on convictions 'through the vehicle of a civil suit, and was based on the 'hoary principle that civil tort actions are not appropriate vehicles for challenging the validity of outstanding criminal judgments.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Such justification exists if the officer had probable cause to arrest the suspect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.