Jeff v. Kempthorne G’s Empirical Analysis

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19 federal appellate · 2 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]e have no doubt that, to save themselves the time, expense, and inevitable risk of litigation petitioners could settle the dispute over the proper remedy for the constitutional violations that had been found by undertaking to do more than the Constitution itself requires (almost any affirmative decree beyond a directive to obey the Constitution necessarily does that), but also more than a court would have ordered absent the settlement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 603 F. Supp. 2d 1275 - Valdivia v. Schwarzenegger

2. “[t]he position urged by [the defendants] would necessarily imply that the only legally enforceable obligation assumed by the state under the consent decree was that of ultimately achieving minimal constitutional ... standards.... Substantively, this would do violence to the obvious intention of the parties that the decretal obligations assumed by the state were not confined to meeting minimal constitutional requirements.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 409 F. Supp. 2d 1188 - Topanga Press, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles

3. “in order to fall into this class of immediately appealable orders, a district court decision must be [(1)] conclusive, [(2)] resolve important questions[ (3)] completely separate from the merits, and [(4)] render such important questions effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment in the underlying action.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stevens v. Brink's Home Security, Inc.