Bishop v. Bartlett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions

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

1. “(1) [the party] has suffered an “injury in fact” that is (a) concrete and particularized and (b) actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical; (2) the injury is fairly traceable to the challenged action of the defendant; and (3) it is likely, as opposed to merely speculative, that the injury will be redressed by a favorable decision.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McBurney v. Cuccinelli · Doe v. Obama

2. “At the pleading stage, general factual allegations of injury resulting from the defendant's conduct may suffice, for on a motion to dismiss we 'presum[e] that general allegations embrace those specific facts that are necessary to support the claim.' " Lujan , 504 U.S. at 561 , 112 S.Ct. 2130 (quoting Lujan v. Nat'l Wildlife Fed'n , 497 U.S. 871 , 889, 110 S.Ct. 3177 , 111 L.Ed.2d 695 (1990) ). "Nevertheless, the party invoking the jurisdiction of the court must include the necessary factual allegations in the pleading, or else the case must be dismissed for lack of standing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Heindel v. Andino

3. “While there is some question regarding whether, at the time of filing, the Roanoke Rapids project had reached the critical point in which Moore’s right to vote was implicated, we will assume for purposes of this opinion that the project had reached a point in which the issuance of bonds was imminent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 204 Md. App. 440 - Kendall v. Howard County