Ford v. Bender’s Empirical Analysis

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6 federal appellate · 19 district · 1 state decisions

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

1. “Carroll v. Carman , --- U.S. ----, 135 S.Ct. 348 , 350, 190 L.Ed.2d 311 (2014) (per curiam) (quoting Ashcroft v. al-Kidd , 563 U.S. 731 , 131 S.Ct. 2074 , 2085, 179 L.Ed.2d 1149 (2011) ). The qualified immunity inquiry normally proceeds as follows: First, [the Court] inquire[s] whether the facts, taken most favorably to the party opposing summary judgment, make out a constitutional violation. Second, [the Court] inquire[s] whether the violated right was clearly established at the time that the offending conduct occurred. The second,”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hunt v. Massi · Dominguez v. Figueroa Sancha

2. “(1) the challenged action is in its duration too short to be fully litigated prior to cessation or expiration; and (2) there is a reasonable expectation or a demonstrated probability that the same complaining party will be subject to the same action again.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reaves v. Dep't of Corr. · Lucero v. Evangelidis

3. “the wide agreement by appellate judges that they should not undertake to delve into the details of a district court's resolution of a controversy that has since become moot in order to decide the ancillary question of fees”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. J.S. v. Westerly Sch. Dist. · J.S. v. The Westerly School District