Sellers Sellers’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Lw v. Grubbs, Davis
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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · City of Canton v. Harris
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is quite narrow. For qualified immunity purposes, a duty is”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“first, in custodial and other settings in which the state has limited the individuals' ability to care for themselves; and second, when the state affirmatively places a particular individual in a position of danger the individual would not otherwise have faced.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he issue before us is whether the [defendants'] conduct violated any clearly established constitutional rights, not whether the [defendants] may have violated departmental regulations.”
1 later decision 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.