Tapia-Tapia v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
322 F.3d 742 · 2003
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Levin v. Madigan (2012), Hildebrand v. Allegheny County (2014)
6 federal appellate · 15 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 Conley v. Gibson · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he government's sovereign immunity does not vanish simply because government officials may be personally liable for unconstitutional acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The need for compliance is, therefore, 'subject to the usual gamut of equitable exceptions.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“procedural requirements, while compulsory, are not jurisdictional”
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.