Van Horn v. Lukhard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 5 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, every action brought pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , shall be brought within one year next after the right to bring the same shall have accrued.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Via v. O'Donnell · Harris v. Obenshain

2. ““[E]ven if a prison official fails through his negligence to prevent an act of violence, a violation of constitutional right is not of necessity stated. To the contrary, there must be a showing either of a pattern of indisputed and unchecked violence or, on a different level, of an egregious failure to provide security to a particular inmate, before a deprivation of constitutional right is stated. An isolated act or omission by a prison official that allows an attack to occur and which involves only simple negligence does not, absent special circumstances, [state a cause of action under Section 1983.]””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 533 F. Supp. 429 - Vance v. Bordenkircher

3. “which were intended to be available where state tort remedies, although available in theory, were not available in practice. It was noted that the Supreme Court has emphasized again and again that the Reconstruction Era civil rights statutes must be accorded a”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Johnson v. Davis