Beydoun v. Sessions’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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

1. “The district court correctly held that Plaintiffs did not allege that any protected interest was violated by them being on the Selectee List. While Plaintiffs may have been inconvenienced by the extra security hurdles they endured in order to board an airplane, these burdens do not amount to a constitutional violation. Importantly, Plaintiffs have not actually been prevented from flying altogether or from traveling by means other than an airplane. Therefore, Plaintiffs' cases are distinguishable from those in which the plaintiffs claimed they could not fly at all because they were on the No Fly List.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kovac v. Wray · Elhady v. Kable

2. “A proposed amendment is futile if the amendment could not withstand a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Parchman v. SLM Corp. · Carthan v. Snyder (In re Flint Water Cases)

3. “[T]his Court reviews the denial of a motion to amend under the abuse-of-discretion standard, unless the motion was denied because the amended pleading would not withstand a motion to dismiss, in which case the standard of review is de novo.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Parchman v. SLM Corp.