Easaw v. Newport’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1652 (Rules of Decision Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Conley v. Gibson · Erie Co v. Tompkins
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'when faced with conflicting authority on D.C. law,' if the D.C. Court of Appeals 'has spoken clearly and unmistakably as to the current state of D.C. law,' the district court should defer to that interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.