Dilmore v. Stubbs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate · 3 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “with the malicious intent to cause a deprivation of constitutional rights or other injury.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 529 So. 2d 27 - Akins v. Jefferson Parish · Williams v. Treen

2. “Under the objective standard, even an official who acts in the sincere subjective belief that his actions are proper will lose his qualified immunity if those actions contravene “settled, indisputable law.” [citations omitted] An official is thus liable under § 1983 “if he knew or reasonably should have known that the áction he took within the sphere of official responsibility would violate the constitutional rights” of the person affected, [citations omitted]. But “[t]he fulcrum for the objective first half of [ Wood v. Stickland, 420 U.S. 308 , 95 S.Ct. 992 , 43 L.Ed.2d 214 (1975)] is the existence, at the time of the official’s action, of clearly established judicial decisions that make his action unconstitutional.” [citations omitted]. We do not expect an official to predict the future course of constitutional law [citations omitted], but “he will not be shielded from liability if he acts with such disregard of the [plaintiff’s] clearly established constitutional rights that his action cannot reasonably be characterized as being in good faith.” [citations omitted].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Williams v. Thomas