Adar v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
639 F.3d 146 · 2011
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Warth v. Seldin · Hanson v. Denckla · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Evenhanded' means only that the state executes a sister state judgment in the same way that it would execute judgments in the forum court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.