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Goad v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis

297 F.3d 497 · 2002

Citation profile

55
cited by 55 later decisions
1
states following
September 2017
most recently cited

17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · Duncan v. Walker

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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In civil suits for money damages, government officials are entitled to qualified immunity for discretionary acts that do `not violate clearly established [federal] statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “First, we inquire whether, `[t]aken in the light most favorable to the party asserting the injury, do the facts alleged show the officer's conduct violated a constitutional right?'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “If no constitutional right would have been violated were the allegations established, there is no necessity for further inquiries concerning qualified immunity.”
    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.