Boyd v. Owen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'have no weight as precedents and therefore cannot clearly establish a constitutional right.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mason-Funk v. City of Neenah · Lovett v. Herbert

2. “[Identification of the specific dictates of due process generally requires consideration of three distinct factors: first, the private interest that will be affected by the official action; second, the risk of an erroneous deprivation of such interest through the procedures used, and the probable value, if any, of additional or substitute procedural safeguards; and, finally, the government’s interest, including the function involved and the fiscal and administrative burdens that the additional or substitute procedural requirement would entail.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 40 F. Supp. 3d 969 - Hughes v. Jones

3. “For a constitutional right to be clearly established, its contours 'must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right'; however, an official action is not protected by qualified immunity only when the very action in question has previously been held unlawful, rather the unlawfulness must be apparent 'in light of the pre-existing law.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kissinger v. Fort Wayne Cmty. Sch.