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Rudder v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

666 F.3d 790 · 2012

Citation profile

93
cited by 93 later decisions
August 2023
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 67 district ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Graham v. Connor · KRUPSKI v. COSTA CROCIERE S. P. A

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

  1. “allows the court to draw the reasonable inference that the defendant is liable for the misconduct alleged.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Dismissal with prejudice is the exception, not the rule, in federal practice because it 'operates as a rejection of the plaintiff's claims on the merits and [ultimately] precludes further litigation of them.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “could not possibly cure the deficienc[ies]”
    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.