Weise v. Reisner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 5 district ·

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

1. ““There are a number of other recent decisions which have indicated that a civil rights complaint may be dismissed when it contains only conclusory allegations. Thus, in Valley v. Maule, 297 F.Supp. 958 (D.Conn. 1968), the court dismissed the complaint and stated at p. 960: ‘* * * plaintiff must specify with “at least some degree of particularity” the overt acts which defendants allegedly engaged in * * *.’ * -X- «* * * “The same point of view was set forth in Bufalino v. Michigan Bell Telephone Company, 404 F.2d 1023 (6th Cir.1968), cert, denied 394 U.S. 987 , 89 S.Ct. 1468 , 22 L.Ed.2d 763 (1969), wherein the court made the following statement at p. 1029 of 404 F.2d: ‘Jurisdiction is not conferred on a federal court in a non-diversity case by mere conclusory allegations that one’s constitutional or civil rights had been violated.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Flood v. Margis

2. ““[It] has been noted often that private individuals acting pursuant to a state law are not acting ‘under color of’ that law so as to result in the imposition of liability under § 1983.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brooks v. Peters

3. “§ 1985 runs only to a deprivation of the federal right to equal protection of the law or of equal privileges and immunities under the law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stamm v. Cnty. of Cheyenne