Moran v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
147 F.3d 839 · 1998
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Kinney v. Weaver (2004), Richard Leo Deorle v. Greg Rutherford Mick Grey County of Butte (2001)
46 federal appellate · 12 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“most doubtful that the Constitution ever protects the right of a public employee in a policymaking position to criticize her employer's policies or programs simply because she does not share her employer's legislative or administrative vision.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“government officials performing discretionary functions . . . from liability for civil damages insofar as their 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 majority“the law regarding such claims will rarely, if ever, be sufficiently`clearly established' to preclude qualified immunity under Harlow and its progeny.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Eng v. Cooley · Lytle v. Wondrash
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.