Wright v. Anding’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1320D (§ 1177 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Gregg v. Georgia · McGuckin v. Smith · WMX Technologies, Inc. v. Miller · Sea Lion Corp. v. Air Logistics of Alaska, Inc.
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.
“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State ... subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States ... to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Failure to develop an argument constitutes a waiver of that argument, and the argument will be considered abandoned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whalen v. Whalen“if there are 'no genuine issues of material fact and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.