Mitchell v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 13 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]his doctrine 'gives government officials breathing room to make reasonable but mistaken judgments,' and 'protects all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gunter v. Cicero · Gregory Lambert, as Administrator of the Estate of Harrison Lambert v. Town of Merrimack, et al.

2. “The plaintiff bears the burden of demonstrating that the law was clearly established at the time of the alleged violation, and it is a heavy burden indeed.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gunter v. Cicero · LaChance v. Town of Charlton

3. “there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. SEC v. Morrone · Justiniano v. Walker