69 F. Supp. 2d 649 - Williams v. Fedor’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 7 district ·

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

1. “The City Solicitor, a locally appointed official, may not be permitted to infringe upon the District Attorney's powers or functions in the prosecution of the criminal law. The District Attorney of Philadelphia County, no less than district attorneys in any other county of this Commonwealth, is the sole public official charged with the legal responsibility of conducting 'in court all criminal and other prosecutions, in the name of the Commonwealth.' Act of July 5, 1957, supra. The District Attorney must be allowed to carry out this important function without hindrance or interference from any source”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sheasley v. Jenereski (In re Sheasley)

2. “[I]t has generally been held that when the focus of the plaintiffs civil rights claims are on the administration of the district attorney’s office, the district attorney is regarded as an official of the county so that the county may be held liable where the facts establish a failure to train or supervise that evidences a deliberate indifference to the rights of the plaintiff.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. N.N. v. Tunkhannock Area School District

3. “so outrageous in character, so extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized society.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 465 F. Supp. 2d 461 - Benard v. Washington County