Crawford v. Kemp’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2023
13 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 Terry v. Ohio · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · United States v. Leon
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the contours of the right are sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that his actions violate that right.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he evidentiary threshold necessary to preclude the entry of summary judgment is low,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although we recognize the policy in favor of deciding immunity issues prior to trial in order to insulate officers from claims based on reasonable mistakes .... [whether a reasonable officer could have believed that the arrest was lawful depends on the resolution of factual disputes as to what transpired.”
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.