Hill v. White’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

65 federal appellate · 3 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 241 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We review de novo the district court's grant of a motion to dismiss under [Federal Rule of Civil Procedure] 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim, accepting the allegations in the complaint as true and construing them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.”

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ponder v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC · M.T v. v. Sonny Perdue

2. “The United States Supreme Court has made clear that a decision concerning the issuance or non-issuance of security clearance is a matter within the purview of the executive and not to be second-guessed by the judiciary unless Congress has specifically provided otherwise. Department of the Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 , 108 S.Ct. 818 , 98 L.Ed.2d 918 (1988). To review the initial stages of a security clearance determination is to review the basis of the determination itself regardless of how the issue is characterized.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hambrick v. Esper · Coppett v. Tennessee Valley Authority

3. “false and frivolous and motivated by a desire to discriminate against him.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hambrick v. Esper · Coppett v. Tennessee Valley Authority