Wallin v. Norman’s Empirical Analysis
317 F.3d 558 · 2003
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Everson v. Leis (2009), Summers v. Leis (2004)
9 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 · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Farmer v. Brennan · Crawford-El v. Britton
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“serves to shield government employees from liability when performing discretionary functions in the course of their employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. TC Reiner v. Canale
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.