Reilly v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 district · 2 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “if two or more persons in any state or territory conspire to deter by force, intimidation, or threat, any party or witness in any court of the United States from attending such court, or from testifying to any matter pending therein, freely, fully, and truthfully, or to injure such party or witness in his person or property on account of his having so attended or testified.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Redcross v. County of Rensselaer · 548 F. Supp. 278 - Martinez v. Winner

2. “It must be recognized, however, that the “right to privacy” is a generic term which encompasses two entirely different interests. First, there is the right to be free from substantive regulation by the government in certain areas of one’s life. Second, there is the right to be free from unwarranted and unwanted publicity about one’s affairs. It is only the first of these interests that is protected by the Constitution. The right to be free from unwanted publicity, which is the privacy interest implicated in the present suit, is protected, if at all, by the common law; and because it is not a federal right, a 1983 action will not lie for its invasion. As the Supreme Court has noted, “the protection of a person’s general right to privacy — his right to be let alone by other people — is, like the protection of his property and of his very life, left largely to the law of the individual States.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Brooks v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.