Tun v. Whitticker’s Empirical Analysis
398 F.3d 899 · 2005
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Geinosky v. City of Chicago (2012), Christensen v. County of Boone (2007)
14 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Wolff v. McDonnell · Mitchell v. Forsyth · County of Sacramento v. Lewis
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is one thing to say that officials acted badly, even tortiously, but-and this is the essential point-it is quite another to say that their actions rise to the level of a constitutional violation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Section] 1983 does not extend the right to relitigate in federal court evidentiary questions arising in school disciplinary proceedings or the proper construction of school regulations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reluctant to expand the concept of substantive due process because guideposts for responsible decisionmaking in this unchartered area are scarce and open-ended.”
2 later decisions 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.