Tompkins v. Vickers’s Empirical Analysis
26 F.3d 603 · 1994
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Kinney v. Weaver (2004), Alexis v. McDonald's Restaurants of Massachusetts, Inc. (1995)
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Connick v. Myers · Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the context of a continuing commentary that had originated in [a] public forum.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a public official's motive or intent must be considered in the qualified immunity analysis where unlawful motivation or intent is a critical element of the alleged constitutional violation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“backdrop of widespread debate in the community.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris · Alexander v. Eeds
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.