John Mclaughlin v. Alex Watson’s Empirical Analysis
271 F.3d 566 · 2001
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Bistrian v. Levi (2012), James v. City of Wilkes-Barre (2012)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“allegedly causing a third party to take some type of adverse action against plaintiff's speech ... [i]t is not enough that defendant speaks critically of plaintiff or even that defendant directly urges or influences the third party to take action.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficient precedent ... factually similar to the plaintiff's allegations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[C]learly established rights' are those with contours sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.”
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.