Vance v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
345 F.3d 1083 · 2003
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Parratt v. Taylor · Perry v. Sindermann
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The relevant, dispositive inquiry in determining whether a right is clearly established is whether it would be clear to a reasonable officer that his conduct was unlawful in the situation he confronted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Walker v. Gomez“was clearly established, and, if so, whether a reasonable prison official would have believed his conduct was clearly unlawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. Gomez“Qualified immunity is an affirmative defense to damage liability; it does not bar actions for declaratory or injunctive relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Leahy v. Conant
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.