Liser v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 17 district · 5 state decisions

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

1. “there is no allegation of a 'failure to protect'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Goolsby v. Dist. of Columbia · Bassett v. Lamantia

2. “It is undisputed that [MPD’s] statement is incorrect.Nevertheless, not all misstatements are lies; not all false statements are fabrications. And here there is no evidence to suggest that [the police detective] made this mistake deliberately or in blatant disregard of what he actually knew, or indeed,’that it was anything other than an honest mistake born of an incomplete investigation. Accordingly, plaintiffs intentional infliction claim cannot survive.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Minch v. District of Columbia

3. “The claim that the government has no general duty to protect particular citizens from injury is simply a non-sequitur where the government itself is solely responsible for that injury, which it has caused by the allegedly negligent use of its own police powers.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Goolsby v. Dist. of Columbia