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251 F.3d 844 · 2001

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

8 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Maldonado v. Harris (2004), Columbia Basin Apartment Ass'n v. City of Pasco (2001)

8 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

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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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Blessing v. Freestone · Wright v. City of Roanoke Redevelopment & Housing Authority

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

  1. “[A] Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal is not appropriate unless we can determine, based on the complaint itself, that qualified immunity applies.”). . Doc. 12 at 12. . See Cinevision Corp. v. City of Burbank, 745 F.2d 560, 567 (9th Cir.1984) (”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “allege[s] acts to which qualified immunity may not apply,”
    1 later decision 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.