Lawmaster v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
125 F.3d 1341 · 1997
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 68 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Simms v. Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (1999), Carpenter v. United States (2018)
67 federal appellate · 68 district · 4 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere existence of a scintilla of evidence in support of the nonmovant's position is insufficient to create a dispute of fact that is 'genuine'; an issue of material fact is genuine only if the nonmovant presents facts such that a reasonable jury could find in favor of the nonmovant.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brasko v. City of Caney Oj Cleland · Karen S. Brasko v. City of Caney, Kansas Bill Jamison Rick Pell Monte Lilburn, and Jeff Atzenhofer O.J. Bridenstine Don Fuqua Bobby Hawthorne Ray Stelfox Laurie Jamison Steve Buster David Estes Gene Vaughan Chad Bradford Mike Hines, Darla Lea Cleland v. City of Caney, Kansas Bill Jamison Rick Pell Monte Lilburn, and Jeff Atzenhofer O.J. Bridenstine Don Fuqua Bobby Hawthorne Ray Stelfox Laurie Jamison Steve Buster David Estes Gene Vaughan Chad Bradford Mike Hines, Karen S. Brasko v. City of Caney, Kansas Rick Pell Monte Lilburn Jeff Atzenhofer O.J. Bridenstine Don Fuqua Bobby Hawthorne Ray Stelfox Laurie Jamison Steve Buster David Estes Gene Vaughan Chad Bradford Mike Hines, and Bill Jamison, Darla Lea Cleland v. City of Caney, Kansas Rick Pell Monte Lilburn Jeff Atzenhofer O.J. Bridenstine Don Fuqua Bobby Hawthorne Ray Stelfox Laurie Jamison Steve Buster David Estes Gene Vaughan Chad Bradford Mike Hines, and Bill Jamison“if the pleadings . . . together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
4 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.