Tenenbaum v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
193 F.3d 581 · 1999
Citation profile
102 federal appellate · 30 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 376 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Holtz v. Rockefeller & Co. (2001), Caldarola v. Calabrese (2002)
102 federal appellate · 30 district · 8 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. · Terry v. Ohio · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Illinois v. Gates · Graham v. Connor
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 376 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and... the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law,”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the evidence is such that a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the nonmoving party.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Protective services caseworkers [must] choose between difficult alternatives.... If they err in interrupting parental custody, they may be accused of infringing the parents’ constitutional rights. If they err in not removing the child, they risk injury to the child and may be accused of infringing the child’s rights. It is precisely the function of qualified immunity to protect state officials in choosing between such alternatives, provided that there is an objectively reasonable basis for their decision, whichever way they make it.”
6 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.