Ernst v. Kauffman’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Wilson v. Garcia · Marrese v. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether (1) the subject of the statement or activity precipitating the claim was a person or entity in the public eye; (2) [whether] the statement or activity precipitating the claim involved conduct that could affect large numbers of people beyond the direct participants; and (3) whether the statement or activity precipitating the claim involved a topic of widespread public interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the standard for determining whether a person is 'in the public eye' appears to be similar if not identical to the standard for determining whether a person is a 'public figure' under First Amendment defamation law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“voluntarily inject[ed] himself or herself into a particular public controversy and thereby [became] a public figure for a limited range of issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.