Fernandez’s Empirical Analysis

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5 district · 1 state decisions

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

1. “When a plaintiff seeks to prove state action based on a conspiracy theory, a requirement of the joint action charge ... is that both public and private actors share a common, unconstitutional goal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 616 F. Supp. 2d 1176 - Ysais v. NEW MEXICO, JUDICIAL STANDARD COM'N

2. “a single plan, the essential nature and general scope of which was known to each person who is to be held responsible for its consequences.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 616 F. Supp. 2d 1176 - Ysais v. NEW MEXICO, JUDICIAL STANDARD COM'N

3. “as a matter of economic reality, that person or entity exerts some degree of control over the employer's compliance with EPPA.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Anderson v. Xto Energy, Inc.