Tyrone v. Hardin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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

1. “Personal capacity suits seek to impose personal liability upon a governmental official for actions he takes under color of state law. Official-capacity suits, in contrast, “generally represent only another way of pleading an action against an entity of which the officer is an agent.” ... Thus, while an award of damages against an official in his personal capacity can be executed only against the official’s personal assets, a plaintiff seeking to recover on a damages judgment in an official-capacity suit must look to the government entity itself.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 962 F. Supp. 1064 - Digiore v. State of Ill.

2. “'Defendant Straub is being sued in his individual capacity on the plaintiff's claim for damages and both in his individual and official capacity on the plaintiff's claim for injunctive relief.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Moore v. City of Harriman

3. “set forth clearly in their pleading that they are suing the state defendants in their individual capacity for damages, not simply in their capacity as state officials.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Moore v. City of Harriman