Thomas v. Haslam’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1746 · 28 U.S.C. § 1963 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal
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.
“instruct this court to consider that scheme as the constitutional equivalent of the state's using, as the sole justification for its action, the poverty of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Mendoza v. Garrett“Visiting a harsh consequence on 'someone who through no fault of his own is unable to make' the payment sought 'will not make [payment] suddenly forthcoming.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Mendoza v. Garrett“the equivalent of a statute that imposes a harsher sanction on indigent debtors than their non-indigent peers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Mendoza v. Garrett
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.