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← 385 F. Supp. 2d 1004 - Wolfe v. George

385 F. Supp. 2d 1004 - Wolfe v. George’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
August 2009
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 21 U.S.C. § 881 (§ 511 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1654 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co.

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

  1. “The first amendment interests involved in private litigation — compensation for violated rights and interests, the psychological benefits of vindication, public airing of disputed facts — are not advanced when the litigation is based on intentional falsehoods or on knowingly frivolous claims. Furthermore, since sham litigation by definition does not involve a bona fide grievance, it does not come within the first amendment right to petition.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.