Harper v. Harris County’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 597 · 1994
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Gerald Burge v. St Tammany Parish of et al. (1999), Judith Bazan Victoria Rose Bazan Rose Marie Avalos v. Hidalgo County et al.
74 federal appellate · 6 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Siegert v. Gilley · Hunter v. Bryant · Hudson v. McMillian · Anderson v. United States
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the court must determine whether the plaintiff has alleged a violation of a clearly established constitutional right. If the plaintiff fails this step, the defendant is entitled to qualified immunity. If she is successful, the issue becomes the objective legal reasonableness of the defendant’s conduct under the circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While it is correct that the reasonableness of the arresting officer's conduct under the circumstances is a question of law for the court to decide, such is not the case where there exist material factual disputes....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not consider[ing] the seriousness of the alleged injuries in determining whether the officer's conduct was objectively reasonable.”
2 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.