McCloud v. Prack’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 15601 (Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Williams v. Smith · Ciambriello v. County of Nassau · McKinnon v. Patterson · Hemphill v. New York
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.
“to make out a conspiracy action under section 1983, the plaintiff must allege an underlying denial of his constitutional rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jennings v. Decker“form the predicate violation for a conspiracy claim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jennings v. Decker
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.