Linlor v. Polson’s Empirical Analysis
2017
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 49 U.S.C. § 46110
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Estelle v. Gamble · Graham v. Connor
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.
“This is, in all relevant respects, precisely the kind of Fourth Amendment search-and-seizure case Courts have long adjudicated through Bivens actions. Defendant[s] ha[ve] identified no meaningful difference, no reason for the Court to doubt its competence to carry the venerable Fourth Amendment Bivens remedy into this context, and no reason to believe that Congress would disapprove of the Court's decision to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Jacobs v. Alam“[T]he Supreme Court has squarely held that the FTCA does not provide an alternative remedial process bearing on the availability of a Bivens remedy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Doe v. United States“We also found it crystal clear that Congress intended the FTCA and Bivens to serve as parallel and complementary sources of liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Elhady v. Pew
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.