Perez v. Ellington’s Empirical Analysis
421 F.3d 1128 · 2005
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Van Deelen v. Johnson (2007), York v. City of Las Cruces (2008)
17 federal appellate · 8 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 Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · Connick v. Myers · Forrester v. White
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the plaintiff was engaged in constitutionally protected activity; (2) that the defendant’s actions caused the plain tiff to suffer an injury that would chill a person of ordinary firmness from continuing to engage in that activity; and (3) that the defendant’s adverse action was substantially motivated as a response to the plaintiffs exercise of constitutionally protected conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our inquiry focuses on `whether the facts alleged support . . . a claim of a violation of clearly established law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Absolute immunity does not extend to actions 'that are primarily investigative or administrative in nature' ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Penate v. Kaczmarek
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.