Paige v. Coyner’s Empirical Analysis
614 F.3d 273 · 2010
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · Blum v. Yaretsky
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the plaintiff engaged in constitutionally protected conduct; (2) an adverse action was taken against the plaintiff that would deter a person of ordinary firmness from continuing to engage in that conduct; and (3) the adverse action was motivated at least in part by the plaintiffs protected conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The State Defendants] could thus be liable not because [the decision to turn away a same sex couple] itself was state action, but because a jury might find that the [decision to turn away a same sex couple] was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the action taken by [the State Defendants].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dumont v. Lyon“Because the state actors in Blum took no action themselves, the Supreme Court necessarily had to determine whether the state should be obligated to shoulder the blame for solely private action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dumont v. Lyon
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.