Babb v. Dorman’s Empirical Analysis
33 F.3d 472 · 1994
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Judge v. City of Lowell (1998), Brown v. Callahan (2010)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
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 · Malley v. Briggs · Beck v. State of Ohio · Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a reasonable officer could have believed [the arrest at issue] to be lawful, in light of clearly established law and the information the [arresting] officers possessed.' Even law enforcement officials who 'reasonably but mistakenly conclude that probable cause is present' are entitled to immunity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable competence could disagree [on whether the conduct is legal], immunity should be recognized.”
3 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.