Serrano v. Sw Francis’s Empirical Analysis
345 F.3d 1071 · 2003
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Castro v. County of Los Angeles (2016), Porter v. Osborn (2008)
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Wolff v. McDonnell · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Sandin v. Conner
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a genuine issue of material fact exists that prevents a determination of qualified immunity at summary judgment, the case must proceed to trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the contours of the right have been defined with sufficient specificity that a state official had fair warning that [his or her] conduct deprived a victim of his [or her] rights[.]”
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.