Mackey v. Dyke’s Empirical Analysis
29 F.3d 1086 · 1994
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Sandin v. Conner (1995), Copeland v. Machulis (1995)
23 federal appellate ·
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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams · Hudson v. Palmer
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendants bear the initial burden ... [of] show[ing] they were acting within their discretionary authority at the time in question”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“; (2) predeprivation process was impossible; and (3) the state actor was not authorized to take the action that deprived the plaintiff of property or liberty. 494 U.S. at 136-39.... The controlling inquiry is whether the state was in a position to provide for predeprivation process. Hudson v. Palmer, 468 U.S. 517 , 534 (1984). 20 Mackey, 29 F.3d at 1093 (parallel citations omitted). Therefore, Parratt is”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.