Moore v. Vega’s Empirical Analysis
371 F.3d 110 · 2004
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Demoret v. Zegarelli (2006), Okin v. Village of Cornwall-On-Hudson Police Department (2009)
11 federal appellate · 13 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Katz v. United States · Anderson v. Creighton · Morrissey v. Brewer · Butz v. Economou
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only Supreme Court and Second Circuit precedent existing at the time of the alleged violation is relevant in deciding whether a right is clearly established.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. Fischer · Jones v. Muniz“First, they are immune from liability if their conduct does not violate 'clearly established' statutory or constitutional rights the existence of which a reasonable person would have known.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a damages action asserting an illegal search, '[t]he relevant question ... is ... whether a reasonable officer could have believed [the] search to be lawful, in light of clearly established law and the information the searching officers possessed.' " Moore v. Vega , 371 F.3d 110 , 115 (2d Cir. 2004) (quoting Anderson , 483 U.S. at 641 , 107 S.Ct. 3034 (ellipses and brackets in original); citing Castro v. United States , 34 F.3d 106 , 112 (2d Cir. 1994) ("Officials are entitled to qualified immunity when their decision was reasonable , even if mistaken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reed v. Sheppard
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.