Forbes’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably McKee, Schieber
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 Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“require[s] the District Courts to specify those material facts that are and are not subject to genuine dispute and explain their materiality.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consider whether the district court correctly identified the set of facts that the summary judgment record is sufficient to prove.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[R]igid adherence to Saucier departs from the general rule of constitutional avoidance.”). 10 . Forbes v. Twp. of Lower Merion, 313 F.3d 144 , 149 (3d Cir. 2002) (“[Djispositions of a motion in which a party pleads qualified immunity include, at minimum, an identification of relevant factual issues and an analysis of the law that justifies the ruling with respect to those issues.”); see also Grant v. City of Pittsburgh, 98 F.3d 116, 123 (3d Cir. 1996) (”
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.