Dean Deboer’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 5 state decisions

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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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[T]he contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right. This is not to say that an official action is protected by qualified immunity unless the very action in question has previously been held unlawful, but it is to say that in the light of pre-existing law the unlawfulness must be apparent.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Osborne v. Seymour · 114 Wash. App. 665 - Seaman v. Karr

2. “Determining whether Defendants are entitled to qualified immunity involves a three-step inquiry: (1) What specific right did Defendants allegedly violate? (2) Was that right “so clearly established as to alert a reasonable officer to its constitutional parameters?” (3) If so, would a reasonable officer have believed that his conduct was lawful?”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Osborne v. Seymour · Seaman v. Karr

3. “Upon the City's insistence, in late 1994, DeBoer withdrew from his other business ventures to devote his full time to the management of the cemetery. Thus, all available indicia are that this was a five-year, personal service contract, terminable only for cause. 1 16 Lujan does not foreclose our consideration of the kind of case contemplated by and left open by San Bernardino Physicians as eligible for due process protection. 2 Upon the facts of this case, DeBoer was deprived of his right”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Deboer