Sanchez v. Swyden’s Empirical Analysis
139 F.3d 464 · 1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Michalik v. Hermann (2005), William Brady and Theresa Brady v. Maryann Dill et al. (1999)
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs
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.
“'plaintiff has alleged the deprivation of an actual constitutional right at all, and if so, proceed to determine whether that right was clearly established at the time of the alleged violation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shipp v. McMahon“[i]f it did § 1983 would provide a cause of action for every defendant acquitted-indeed, for every suspect released.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“state with specificity the constitutional right that has been allegedly violated.”
1 later decision 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.