610 F. Supp. 2d 185 - Vega v. Artus’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 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 · Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Faretta v. California · Pearson v. Callahan
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Perhaps the most obvious of the First Amendment rights that are necessarily curtailed by confinement are those associational rights that the First Amendment protects outside of prison walls.... Equally as obvious, the inmate's 'status as a prisoner’ and the operational realities of a prison dictate restrictions on the associational rights among inmates.”); Vega v. Artus, 610 F.Supp.2d 185, 201-02 (N.D.N.Y.2009) (same); Fisher v. Goord, 981 F.Supp. 140, 169 (W.D.N.Y.1997) (noting that an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Specific facts are not necessary” to successfully state a claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(a)(2). Erickson v. Pardus, 551 U.S. 89 , 127 S.Ct. 2197, 2200 , 167 L.Ed.2d 1081 (2007) [emphasis added]. That statement was merely an abbreviation of the often-repeated point of law — first offered in Conley and repeated in Twombly — that a pleading need not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.