Reynolds v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
370 F.3d 1028 · 2004
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Cortez v. McCauley (2007), Buck v. City of Albuquerque (2008)
15 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Cone v. Longmont United Hospital Ass'n · Samuel Lemaire v. Manfred Maass, Superintendent, Samuel Lemaire v. Manfred Maass, Superintendent
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a daily risk faced by members of the public at large.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In an action under section 1983, individual defendants are entitled to qualified immunity unless it is demonstrated that their alleged conduct violated clearly established constitutional rights of which a reasonable person in their positions would have known.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reeves“As a threshold matter, plaintiff must therefore demonstrate that he has presented sufficient facts to show that defendants' conduct violated [a constitutional right].”
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.