Yorzinski v. Alves’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district ·

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

1. ““In determining whether a particular right was clearly established at the time defendants acted, [the Second Circuit] has considered three factors: (1) whether the right in question was defined with ‘reasonable specificity;’ (2) whether the decisional law of the Supreme Court and the applicable circuit court support the existence of the right in question; and (3) whether under preexisting law a reasonable defendant official would have understood that his or her acts were unlawful.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 782 F. Supp. 2d 4 - Aho v. Anthony · 690 F. Supp. 2d 34 - Palmieri v. Kammerer

2. “While Binette emphasized that its decision did “not mean that a constitutional cause of action exists for every violation of [Connecticut’s] state constitution” and that “[wjhether to recognize a cause of action for alleged violations of other state constitutional provisions in the future must be determined on a case-by-case basis,” Binette did not ... impose a limitation on claims based on claimed police search and seizure violation of § 7.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Waller v. City of Middletown