Goddard v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 22 district · 1 state decisions

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the application to another of such force, either physical or moral, as to constrain him to do against his will something he would not otherwise have done.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thomas v. Harrington · Thomas v. Town of Salisbury

2. “[T]he MCRA contemplates a two-part sequence: [liability may be found where] (1) the defendant threatens, intimidates, or coerces the plaintiff, in order to (2) cause the plaintiff to give up something that [she] has the constitutional right to do.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thomas v. Harrington · Thomas v. Town of Salisbury

3. “The two constitutional rights at stake are the right to be free from excessive force and the right to be free from false arrest. If the statute [MCRA] applies, it would mean that the defendants assaulted the plaintiff in order to cause the plaintiff to give up his right to be free from excessive force, or threatened arrest in order to cause him to give up his right to be free from false arrest. Such a construction would torture the statute well beyond its plain meaning, and therefore the Court concludes that it simply does not apply to the present facts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 22 F. Supp. 3d 94 - Lund v. Henderson