Mahers v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
12 F.3d 783 · 1993
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because qualified immunity provides 'immunity from suit rather than a mere defense to liability, and ... is effectively lost if a case is erroneously permitted to go to trial.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Delo · Brown v. Nix“clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known at the time the action occurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henderson v. Baird · Hayes v. Long“In order for a person to have a clearly established right, 'the contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henderson v. Baird
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.