Wilson v. Formigoni’s Empirical Analysis
42 F.3d 1060 · 1994
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Frank M. Dimeglio v. J. Robert Haines (1995), Jenkins v. Medford (1997)
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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Parratt v. Taylor · Goldberg v. Kelly
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court confronting a procedural due process claim must initially determine whether the government deprived a person of a protected life, liberty or property interest as a matter of substantive law, and, only if the answer is positive will the court reach the question of whether the deprivation took place without the process that was due.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conduct [did] not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. See Smith v. Shettle, 946 F.2d 1250 , 1252 (7th Cir.1991) (”
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.