Tardiff v. Knox County’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 federal appellate · 46 district · 1 state decisions

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

1. “All people strip-searched at the York County Jail after October 14, 1996, under a policy or custom of conducting strip-searches without evaluating individualized reasonable suspicion: (1) while waiting for bail to be set or for a first court appearance after being arrested on charges that did not involve a weapon or drugs or a violent felony; or (2) while waiting for a first court appearance after being arrested on a default or other warrant that did not involve a weapon or drugs or a violent felony.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 382 F. Supp. 2d 206 - Nilsen v. York County

2. “It is sometimes taken for granted that the complaint’s allegations are necessarily controlling; but class action machinery is expensive and in our view a court has the power to test disputed premises early on if and when the class action would be proper on one premise but not another.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Polymedica Corp. Securities Litigation

3. “All class actions certified under Rule 23 must meet certain prerequisites listed in subsection (a): there must be numerosity of class members, common questions of law or fact, the representative must be typical of the class, and his or her representation of the class must be adequate.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carrier, et al. v. American Bankers