Key v. Grayson’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.3d 996 · 1999
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Tennessee v. Lane (2004), Perez v. Oakland County (2006)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 12131 (§ 201 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Pennsylvania Department of Corrections v. Yeskey · Krishnamurthy v. Nimmagadda · Harris v. Thigpen · Williams v. Meese
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“look[s] first to decisions of the Supreme Court, then to decisions of this court and other courts within our circuit, and finally to decisions of other circuits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas“any department, agency, special purpose district, or other instrumentality of a State or States or local government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. King“The burden of convincing a court that the law was clearly established rests squarely with the plaintiff.”
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.