Kinzer v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
316 F.3d 139 · 2003
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Savino v. City of New York (2003), Sira v. Morton (2004)
10 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs · Hunter v. Bryant · Johnson v. Jones
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shields a government official acting in an official capacity from suit for damages under § 1983 unless the official `violated clearly established rights of which an objectively reasonable official would have known.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the doctrine of qualified immunity, a government official performing discretionary functions is shielded from liability for civil damages ... if it would have been objectively reasonable for the official to believe that his conduct did not violate plaintiff's rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) that the defendant commenced or continued a criminal proceeding against him; (2) that the proceeding was terminated in the plaintiff's favor; (3) that there was no probable cause for the proceeding; and (4) that the proceeding was instituted with malice.”
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.