Latta v. Keryte’s Empirical Analysis
118 F.3d 693 · 1997
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Tonkovich v. Kansas Board of Regents (1998), Flores v. City of Palacios (2004)
23 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Graham v. Connor · United States v. Mendenhall · Florida v. Bostick
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and ... the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an abuse of official power that shocks the conscience”
2 later decisions 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.