Hudson v. Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Chambers v. Time Warner, Inc.
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.
“[The plaintiff]'s § 1983 claim against the named [d]efendants in their official capacity must be dismissed as well because he has failed to state that the alleged violation of the constitutional rights at issue derived from a municipal policy or practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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