Harrell v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
169 F.3d 428 · 1999
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Doe 1-7 v. Heck (2003), Hilton IV v. City of Wheeling (2000)
7 federal appellate ·
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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[q]ualified immunity depends on the objective legal reasonableness of the defendants' actions, not on their subjective motivations”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe 1-7 v. Heck
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.