Bolton v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 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 · Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Younger v. Harris
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 a state official acts within the bounds of discretion given to him by law, his acts are not random and unauthorized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“do[ ] not fit neatly into Rule 12(b)(1) or Rule 12(b)(6).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.