Sherman v. Koch’s Empirical Analysis
623 F.3d 501 · 2010
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III · Mart Corporation v. Cartier Inc 47th Street Photo Inc
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fails to define the offense with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited and it fails to establish standards to permit enforcement in a nonarbitrary, nondiscriminatory manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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