Ramirez-Peyro v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “look to see whether a sufficient nexus exists between the official's public position and the official's harmful conduct.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. O'Toole v. City of Walnut Grove · Campbell v. Reisch

2. “does not require that the public official [who acquiesces in torture] be executing official state policy or that the public official be the nation’s president or some other official at the upper echelons of power---- [I]t is not contrary to the purpose of the CAT ... to hold Mexico responsible for the acts of its officials, including low-level ones, even when those officials act in contravention of the nation’s will....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Madrigal v. Holder

3. “does not require that the public official be executing official state policy or that the public official be the nation’s president or some other official at the upper echelons of power. Rather ... the use of official authority by low-level officials, such a[s] police officers, can work to place actions under the color of law even where they are without state sanction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Garcia v. Holder