Berryman v. Rieger’s Empirical Analysis
150 F.3d 561 · 1998
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 248 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Thaddeus-X v. Blatter (1999), Ellis v. Washington County (1999)
81 federal appellate · 3 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Estelle v. Gamble · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Farmer v. Brennan · Johnson v. Jones
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 248 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant who is denied qualified immunity may file an interlocutory appeal with this Court only if that appeal involves the abstract or pure legal issue of whether the facts alleged by the plaintiff constitute a violation of clearly established law.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dorsey v. Barber · Fazica v. Jordan“id.; otherwise, we cannot entertain the defendant's arguments, no matter how meritorious they may be. 8 In this case, Coy clearly has failed to limit his argument to questions of law taking the facts in the light most favorable to Phelps. Coy argues, for instance, that he”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] defendant who wishes to file such an [interlocutory] appeal after being denied qualified immunity should be prepared to concede the best view of the facts to the plaintiff and discuss only the legal issues raised by the case. Such a defendant will have a solid jurisdictional position if the defendant claims the plaintiff cannot show a violation of clearly established law even assuming everything alleged is true.”
4 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.