Ruffalo v. Civiletti’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Roe v. Wade · Stanley v. Illinois · Butz v. Economou · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“into a government actor by virtue of his acting as a witness for the government and entering the Witness Protection Program. Cf. Bennett v. Pasic [Passic], 545 F.2d 1260 , 1263-64 (10th Cir.1976) (witnesses do not act under color of state law).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ruffalo Ruffalo
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.