Brown v. D'Amico’s Empirical Analysis
35 F.3d 97 · 1994
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2022
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 · Doerr v. Doerr · Procunier v. Martinez · CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Easterwood
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Qualified immunity shields arresting officers from personal liability for damages ‘insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory rights of which a reasonable person would have known,’ Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818, 102 S.Ct. 2727, 2738 , 73 L.Ed.2d 396 (1982), or insofar as it was objectively reasonable for them to believe that their acts did not violate those rights, see Anderson v. Creighton, 483 U.S. 635, 638 , 107 S.Ct. 3034, 3038 , 97 L.Ed.2d 523 (1987). See Golino v. New Haven 950 F.2d 864 , 870 (2d Cir.1991), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 112 S.Ct. 3032 , 120 L.Ed.2d 902 (1992).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Naccarato v. Oliver“critical to the evaluation of probable cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Velardi v. Walsh
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.