Barnes v. Fedele’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000C
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Bell v. Wolfish · Malley v. Briggs · Wilson v. Layne · Ashcroft v. al-Kidd
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before a court can determine if the relevant law was clearly established, 'the right allegedly violated must be defined at the appropriate level of specificity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. Harling“do not require a case directly on point, but existing precedent must have placed the statutory or constitutional question beyond debate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. Harling“repeatedly told courts ... not to define clearly established law at a high level of generality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. Harling
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.