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William Gross v. Deputy Quent Pirtle and Dona Ana Countys’s Empirical Analysis

245 F.3d 1151 · 2001

Citation profile

82
cited by 82 later decisions
3
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

28 federal appellate · 21 district · 3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth

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

  1. “that the right at issue was clearly established at the time of the defendant's unlawful conduct.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “An order denying summary judgment based on qualified immunity necessarily involves a legal determination that certain alleged actions violate clearly established law.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.