Rentas v. Ruffin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate ·

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

1. “violation of civil rights; battery; denial of medical care; and negligent screening, hiring, training, supervising and retaining of police officers ... adequately notified the municipal defendants that [plaintiff] might bring an IIED claim against them”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. M.T. v. City of N.Y.

2. “'[W]hen a defendant has deprived the plaintiff of liberty[,] ... but the ... adverse action would have been taken even' in the absence of the wrongful conduct, 'the plaintiff ... is entitled only to nominal damages.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carlton v. C.O. Pearson

3. “[I]f the prosecution relied on independent, untainted information to establish probable cause, a complaining official will not be responsible for the prosecution that follows.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thagard v. Lauber