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660 F.3d 975 · 2011

Citation profile

49
cited by 49 later decisions
August 2023
most recently cited

22 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Village of Willowbrook v. Olech · Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc. · 33 Cal. 2d 80 - Summers v. Tice · Spiegla v. Hull

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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he burden of proof relating to causation is divided between the parties in First Amendment tort cases. To make a prima facie showing of causation the plaintiff must show only that the defendant’s conduct was a sufficient condition of the plaintiffs injury. The defendant can rebut, but only by showing that his conduct was not a necessary condition of the harm — the harm would have occurred anyway.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “show that a violation of his First Amendment rights was a motivating factor of the harm he's complaining of.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “the burden shifts to the defendant to show that the harm would have occurred anyway.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.