King v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on ITT Commercial Finance Corp. v. Mid-America Marine Supply Corp. · Ameristar Jet Charter, Inc. v. Dodson International Parts, Inc. · MacKe Laundry Service Ltd. Partnership v. Jetz Service Co. · State Ex Rel. Police Retirement System v. Mummert · KRP Ex Rel. Brown v. Penyweit
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.
“that the suit was intentionally initiated or continued without the honest belief that it was lawful when done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.