Starr v. Baca’s Empirical Analysis
633 F.3d 1191 · 2011
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
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Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78U (§ 21d of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Farmer v. Brennan
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What you need to do is state precisely what it is that you are claiming other than he’s the general supervisor of the jail facility, and therefore, he can be sued individually if anything bad happens, because bad things have happened in the past at the jail. It has to be something more than that to give rise to a claim. That’s what I want. I want you to state what precisely it is that he supposedly did wrong, and if it’s a failure to supervise it can’t be just a general failure of supervision. It has to be something that is specific. That’s what I want.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Starr v. Baca“MR. PAZ: Your Honor, let me give you an analogy, Your Honor. All I can do is put it on the record and try to explain to the court the theory. It’s no different than if we had the head of a hospital, and a surgeon five floors down below is killing people on a regular basis. If the head of the hospital doesn’t act, then they will be liable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Starr v. Baca“In other words, any time anything goes wrong of any sort Baca gets blamed and he can be individually liable as opposed to being liable [in his official capacity] as the agent of the county. I can understand that claim. There is no problem with that one, but you are suing him on an individual basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Starr v. Baca
How this case has been treated — in progress
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