Davis v. Coakley’s Empirical Analysis
802 F.3d 128 · 2015
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Dartmouth Review v. Dartmouth College · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Tambone · Cheryl Bessette for Herself and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Avco Financial Services Inc · Centro Medico del Turabo, Inc. v. Feliciano de Melecio
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) the person, compared with others similarly situated, was - 40 - selectively treated; and (2) that such selective treatment was based on impermissible considerations such as race, religion, intent to inhibit or punish the exercise of constitutional rights, or malicious or bad faith intent to injure a person.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.