Tremblay v. McClellan’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024
5 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
Relies on Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Behrens v. Pelletier · Crawford-El v. Britton · Richard Hatch Jr v. Department for Children Youth and Their Families Steven Brown and Mary McKee
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Justifying the decision to grant qualified immunity to the defendant without first resolving, under Saucier’s first prong, whether the defendant’s conduct violated the Constitution, these courts have observed that Saucier’s “underlying principle” of encouraging federal courts to decide unclear legal questions in order to clarify the law for the future “is not meaningfully advanced ... when the definition of constitutional rights depends on a federal court’s uncertain assumptions about state law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Saucier ... surely did not mean to require federal courts to define and clarify unclear state statutes when this is wholly unnecessary to decide the case as hand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Motley“resolve[] into whether [Massachusetts] law authorize[s] the officer's action,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perry v. Spencer
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.