Sheets v. Mullins’s Empirical Analysis
287 F.3d 581 · 2002
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Moldowan v. City of Warren (2009), Binay v. Bettendorf (2010)
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“insulated by the 'qualified' or 'good faith' immunity doctrine from exposure to 'individual capacity’ lawsuits anchored in a discretionary official decision if 'their conduct does not violate clearly established [federal] statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known,' even if their actions actually violated the plaintiff’s federal rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he ultimate burden of proof is on the plaintiff to show that the defendant is not entitled to qualified immunity”
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.