Landry v. Odom’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · Florida Department of State v. Treasure Salvors, Inc. · Union Planters National Leasing, Inc. v. Woods · Sims v. Jefferson Downs, 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.
“Here, the [Sjtate of Louisiana is undoubtedly, responsible for the statute in question, but Dr. Palotta’s involvement, by his actions pursuant to that statute, without something more, is not sufficient to justify a characterization of him as a state actor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Glismann
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.