Tigrett’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “(1) that the supervisor had actual or constructive knowledge that his subordinate was engaged in conduct that posed a pervasive and unreasonable risk of constitutional injury to citizens like the plaintiff; (2) that the supervisor’s response to that knowledge was so inadequate as to show deliberate indifference to or tacit authorization of the alleged offensive practices; and (3) that there was an affirmative causal link between the supervisor’s inaction and the particular constitutional injury suffered by the plaintiff.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Mikkelsen v. DeWitt

2. “Whether a deprivation of constitutional rights has occurred is not dependent upon the subjective feelings or beliefs of a plaintiff. In order to properly maintain a due process claim, a plaintiff must have been, in fact, deprived of a constitutionally protected liberty or property interest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Chandler v. Forsyth Technical Cmty. Coll.

3. “[t]he Supreme Court has assumed, without actually deciding, that university students possess a 'constitutionally protectable property right' in their continued enrollment in a university.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Chandler v. Forsyth Technical Cmty. Coll.