Greer v. Shoop’s Empirical Analysis
141 F.3d 824 · 1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 30 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Kurtz v. City of Shrewsbury (2001), Grozdanich v. Leisure Hills Health Center, Inc. (1998)
4 federal appellate · 30 district ·
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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Anderson v. Creighton · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Siegert v. Gilley · Get Away Club, Inc. v. Coleman
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he [wa]s doing violates that right. This is not to say that an official action is protected by qualified immunity unless the very action in question has previously been held unlawful, but it is to say that in the light of pre-existing law the unlawfulness must [have been] apparent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he most that can be said of the state functionaries in this case is that they stood by and did nothing when suspicious circumstances dictated a more active role for them.”
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.