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7 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 54 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Dr. Gladys Cok v. Louis Cosentino.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Gladys Cok v. Louis Cosentino Anchor | green | “generally, a private citizen has no authority to initiate a federal criminal prosecution.” | 11 |
| 2 | Lopez v. Robinson | green | “in american jurisprudence at least, a private citizen lacks a judicially cognizable interest in the prosecution or nonprosecution of another.” | 11 |
| 3 | Dr. Gladys Cok v. Louis Cosentino | green | “a private citizen has no authority to initiate a federal criminal prosecution.” | 10 |
| 4 | Inmates of Attica Correctional Facility v. Nelson A. Rockefeller | green | “federal courts have traditionally and, to our knowledge, uniformly refrained from overturning, at the insistence of a private person, discretionary decisions of federal prosecuting authorities not to prosecute persons regarding whom a complaint of criminal conduct is made, . . .…” | 8 |
| 5 | Inmates of Attica Correctional Facility v. Nelson A. Rockefeller | green | “is nevertheless an executive official of the government, and it is as an officer of the executive department that he exercises a discretion as to whether or not there shall be a prosecution in a particular case.” | 8 |
| 6 | Terry Simonton, Jr. v. Franklin Tennis | green | “we affirm the district's order, as it properly concluded that plaintiff cannot sue another inmate . . . under 1983 because he is not a state actor.” | 3 |
| 7 | Alfonso Jacson v. Sheryl Foster | green | “inmate defendant did not act under color of state law under any formulation of the governmental actor test.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.