Romero v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Fuerschbach v. Southwest Airlines Co. (2006), Kennedy v. Dexter Consolidated Schools (2000)
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 26 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs
Most-quoted passages
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“First, a court must look at the undisputed facts and those facts adduced by the party opposing summary judgment to see if there is any evidentiary support for finding a possible violation of law. Second, if the law may have been violated, a court must ask if that law was clearly established at the time of the alleged violation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether the doctrine of qualified immunity protects an official from an action brought under the Tort Claims Act is an open question. The Act was passed prior to the genesis of the modern qualified immunity law established in Harlow . Further, qualified immunity has developed as a defense to § 1983 actions and to corresponding actions against federal officials under Bivens v. Six Unknown Federal Narcotics Agents, 403 U.S. 388 , 91 S.Ct. 1999 , 29 L.Ed.2d 619 (1971). See, e.g., Anderson, 483 U.S. at 637 , 107 S.Ct. 3034 (Bivens action against FBI agent); Mitchell, 472 U.S. at 513 , 105 S.Ct. 2806 ... (Bivens action against United States for warrantless wiretap); Carrillo [v. Rostro ], 114 N.M. [607] at 609, 845 P.2d [130] at 132 [ (1992) ] (Section 1983 action). In this case both parties assumed that qualified immunity does protect officials from actions brought under the Tort Claims Act and, as a result, did not argue in the trial court whether the doctrine of qualified immunity from suit under § 1983 applies to liability for which immunity is specifically waived under the Tort Claims Act. Although we question the parties’ assumption, we will not address the question here because it is not properly before us.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.