Lawless v. Sadeck’s Empirical Analysis
2023
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Pearson v. Callahan · Zinermon v. Burch · Tumey v. State of Ohio · Withrow v. Larkin
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless their conduct violated 'clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Penate v. Sullivan
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.