Patterson v. Rawlings’s Empirical Analysis
2018
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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 · Warth v. Seldin · Elrod v. Burns · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission
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.
“failed to adequately plead that tax money was spent in connection with the [allegedly unlawful] removal of the [General Robert E.] Lee [s]tatue or any other Confederate monument”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Feldman v. Bowser
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.