Tyler v. Massachusetts’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Younger v. Harris · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As the Single Justice pointed out, her remedy-if one need be sought-is an appeal from any order eventually entered by the Probate and Family Court that plaintiff believes to impinge on her rights under the United States Constitution or the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, rights which she is free to assert in the Probate Court proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Plaintiff asks this court to bar the Probate Court from, among other things, entering alimony decree and determining the visitation rights of the biological father of the child-interests that are fundamental and uniquely reserved to the states.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watson v. Ordonez
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.