Justice v. Elrod’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Flemming v. Nestor · United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz · McMorris v. Alioto
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When Justice’s claims are properly viewed in Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment terms, McMorris v. Alioto, 567 F.2d 897 (9th Cir.1978) is on all fours and wholly persuasive. McMorris upheld an identical court rule requiring searches, implemented in an identical manner to the one here, because of concerns stemming from threats and episodes of violence affecting public buildings such as the Hall of Justice (at issue in McMorris ) and the Civic Center (at issue here). Defendants point to the late 1983 murders of Judge Henry Gentile and attorney John Piszczor in a Civic Center courtroom as supporting the rule at issue here.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“misguided statement that would talk him right out of court,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Justice v. Elrod
How this case has been treated — in progress
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