Cottone v. Jenne’s Empirical Analysis
326 F.3d 1352 · 2003
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Holloman ex rel. Holloman v. Harland (2004), Bryant v. CEO DeKalb Co. (2009)
38 federal appellate · 2 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 Mitchell v. Forsyth · Farmer v. Brennan · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Hope v. Pelzer
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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he causal connection may be established when a supervisor's custom or policy ... result[s] in deliberate indifference to constitutional rights ....”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The defense of qualified immunity completely protects government officials performing discretionary functions from suit in their individual capacities unless their conduct violates ‘clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.’ ” Gonzalez, 325 F.3d at 1232 (quoting Hope v. Pelzer, 536 U.S. 730 , 122 S.Ct. 2508, 2515 , 153 L.Ed.2d 666 (2002)); Vinyard v. Wilson, 311 F.3d 1340, 1346 (11th Cir.2002). To receive qualified immunity, a government official first must prove that he was acting within his discretionary authority. Gonzalez, 325 F.3d at 1233 (citing Vinyard, 311 F.3d at 1346 ).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once a defendant establishes that he was acting within his discretionary authority, the burden shifts to the plaintiff to show that the defendant is not entitled to 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.