Clanton v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
129 F.3d 1147 · 1997
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably 22 Cal. 4th 900 - People v. Jenkins (2000), Ernest Medina v. Michael Cram - Ralph Bruning City of Colorado Springs Loren Kramer (2001)
55 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Illinois v. Gates · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp.
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must scrupulously avoid second-guessing the district court's determinations regarding whether [plaintiff] has presented evidence sufficient to survive summary judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“methods offensive when used against an accused do not magically become any less so when exerted against a witness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.”
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.