Figg v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
433 F.3d 593 · 2006
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Entzi v. Redmann (2007), St. Martin v. City of St. Paul (2012)
17 federal appellate · 3 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 · Heck v. Humphrey · Imbler v. Pachtman · Valdez v. City & County of Denver · United States v. Dane
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the inquiry focuses on whether the subject matter of the decision was within the official's power, and whether the official was acting in her official capacity at the time of the decision”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mayorga v. Missouri“We review the district court's grant of summary judgment de novo, and may affirm the district court on any basis supported by the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Awnings v. Fullerton“Absolute immunity defeats a suit at the outset, so long as the official's actions were within the scope of the immunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mayorga v. Missouri
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.