541 F. Supp. 716 - Caplinger v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Thermtron Products, Inc. v. Hermansdorfer · County of Allegheny v. Frank Mashuda Co. · McClellan v. Carland · Western Food Plan, Inc. v. MacFarlane
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Federal district courts are charged in the first instance with enforcement of the civil rights statutes. There is a strong federal interest in litigating in this federal court a civil rights case which the plaintiff has chosen to commence here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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