Guffey v. Wyatt’s Empirical Analysis
18 F.3d 869 · 1994
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Hollingsworth v. Hill (1997), Maestas v. Lujan (2003)
16 federal appellate · 11 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs · Siegert v. Gilley
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no material issues of fact remain as to whether the defendant's actions were objectively reasonable in light of the law and the information the defendant possessed at the time of his actions.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ven if defendant's conduct proves unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment, it 'may nevertheless be objectively reasonable for purposes of qualified immunity'.”
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.