O'Connor v. Pierson’s Empirical Analysis
426 F.3d 187 · 2005
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 23 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably United States v. Rigas (2009), O'Brien v. ED Donnelly Enterprises Inc. (2009)
24 federal appellate · 23 district · 4 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from New York Southern District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Wolff v. McDonnell
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hether executive action shocks the conscience depends on the state of mind of the government actor and the context in which the action was taken.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere negligence will never give rise to a substantive due process violation,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]nly the most egregious official conduct”
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.