Bradley v. Computer Sciences Corporation’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is important that officials of government should be free to exercise their duties unembarassed by the fear of damage suits in respect of acts done in the course of those duties — suits which would consume time and energies which would otherwise be devoted to governmental service and the threat of which might appreciably inhibit the fearless, vigorous, and effective administration of policies of government.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Central Claims Service, Inc. v. Computer Science Corp.

2. “presenting complaints to responsible government officials about the conduct of their subordinates with whom the complainer has had official dealings is analogously central to the protections of the right to petition”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lewis v. Oliver

3. “motivated by financial self-interest, and [is] aware of and pleased by the prospect of injury resulting to the official complained of,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mangold v. Analytic Services, Inc.