Kijonka v. Seitzinger’s Empirical Analysis
363 F.3d 645 · 2004
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Gilles v. Davis (2005), Wheeler v. Lawson (2008)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Burns v. Reed · Soldal v. Cook County · Escalera v. Lunn · Carter v. City of Philadelphia · Arnsberg v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Consulting a prosecutor may not give an officer absolute immunity ... but it goes far to establish qualified immunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mannoia v. Farrow“whether there was any reasonable basis to suppose there was probable cause ... is the test for qualified immunity”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilles v. Davis“given the presence at the scene of a policeman”
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.