Farid v. Ellen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 3 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is well settled in this Circuit that personal involvement of defendants in alleged constitutional deprivations is a prerequisite to an award of damages under § 1983.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Davis v. N.Y.C. Hous. Auth. · 342 F. Supp. 3d 275 - Hansen v. Town of Smithtown

2. “A defendant is entitled to summary judgment on the issue of qualified immunity if [he] “adducefs] sufficient facts [such] that no reasonable jury, looking at the evidence in the light most favorable to, and drawing all inferences most favorable to the plaintiffs, could conclude that it was objectively unreasonable for the defendant]” to believe that he was acting in a fashion that did not clearly violate an established federally protected right.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 764 F. Supp. 2d 351 - Moreno-Perez v. Toledo-Davila

3. “shields government officials from civil liability 'insofar as their conduct, does not .violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.' ” Farid v. Ellen, 593 F.3d 233 , 244 (2d Cir. 2010) (quoting Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 , 818, 102 S.Ct. 2727 , 73 L.Ed.2d 396 (1982)). It”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hassell v. Fischer