Buckley v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
848 F.3d 855 · 2017
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Pearson v. Callahan · Heck v. Humphrey · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts conduct a two-part inquiry to determine whether qualified immunity protects a government official from liability: (1) whether the facts taken in the light most favorable to [Thompson] make out a violation of a constitutional or statutory right; and (2) whether that right was clearly established at the time of the alleged violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Supreme Court's decision in Wallace controls Buckley's [ Brady ] claim. The trial court invalidated Buckley's 1999 conviction on November 1, 2010. No extant conviction exists for his § 1983 claims to impugn. The possibility that the State may have re-tried and convicted him of the cocaine charges-”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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