Tremblay v. McClellan’s Empirical Analysis
350 F.3d 195 · 2003
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Behrens v. Pelletier · Crawford-El v. Britton · Richard Hatch Jr v. Department for Children Youth and Their Families Steven Brown and Mary McKee
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[1] whether at some abstract level the plaintiffs have asserted a violation of constitutional rights, [2] whether those rights are clearly established, and [3] whether a reasonable officer could have concluded that his actions did not violate plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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