Weaver v. Brenner’s Empirical Analysis
40 F.3d 527 · 1994
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Rodriguez v. Phillips (1995), Riley v. Dorton (1997)
21 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“use or derivative use of a compelled statement at any criminal proceeding against the declarant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,”
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.