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Martin v. Duffy’s Empirical Analysis

858 F.3d 239 · 2017

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble · Pearson v. Callahan

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

  1. “a plaintiff must allege that (1) he engaged in protected First Amendment activity, (2) the defendant took some action that adversely affected his First Amendment rights, and (3) there was a causal relationship between his protected activity and the defendant's conduct.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[A]n order that fails to explicitly address or dispose of all claims presented to the court may nevertheless qualify as a final, appealable order if [its] language ... is calculated to conclude all the claims before the district court....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “a plaintiff suffers adverse action if the defendant's allegedly retaliatory conduct would likely deter 'a person of ordinary firmness' from the exercise of First Amendment rights.”
    1 later decision 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.