Mink v. Knox’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.3d 995 · 2010
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 79 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Brinegar v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · 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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim has facial plausibility when the pleaded factual content allows the court to draw the reasonable inference that the defendant is liable for the misconduct alleged.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the plaintiff must demonstrate that the defendant's actions violated a constitutional or statutory right and that the constitutional or statutory rights the defendant allegedly violated were clearly established at the time of the conduct at issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he test of what a particular statement could reasonably be understood to have asserted is what a reasonable reader would understand the author to be saying, considering the kind of language used and the context in which it is used.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. O'Donnell v. Knott
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.