Swartz v. Sylvester’s Empirical Analysis
2022
Citation profile
2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith · Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc. · Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney · Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah
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.
“Qualified immunity protects government officials . . . from liability when they act under color of state law, and when their actions or decisions, 'although injurious, "do[] not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Qualified immunity protects government officials . . . from liability when they act under color of state law, and when their actions or decisions, 'although injurious,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right at issue was 'clearly established' at the time of the alleged violation.”
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.