Lawrence v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
406 F.3d 1224 · 2005
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Dodds v. Richardson (2010), Kay v. Bemis (2007)
17 federal appellate · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mathews v. Eldridge · Anderson v. Creighton · Imbler v. Pachtman · New York v. Burger
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“— such as reliance on the advice of counsel or on a statute —”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The statement in Harlow that reasonably competent public officials know clearly established law[] is a legal fiction.- Qualified immunity is appropriate in those situations in which the legal fiction does not make sense and applying that fiction would create problems that qualified immunity is intended to avert.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a reasonable officer in [the defendant's] position would have known that [the plaintiff] had a clearly established Fourth Amendment right not to identify himself”
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.