729 F. Supp. 2d 125 - Brown v. Short’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
3 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 · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Bell v. Wolfish
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was following U.S. Marshal policy without regard to the order of a [Superior Court] judicial officer[, and i]n this position, she was a federal actor analogous to the U.S. Marshal[ ] for the Superior Court, to whom [§] 1983 does not apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jiggetts v. Cipullo“a close question that poses complex legal issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jiggetts v. Cipullo
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.