Robbins v. Wilkie’s Empirical Analysis
433 F.3d 755 · 2006
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Wilkie v. Robbins (2007), Stonecipher v. Valles (2014)
13 federal appellate · 4 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1964 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Rakas v. Illinois
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has appellate jurisdiction over “final decisions” of district courts. 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . Under the “collateral order” doctrine, however, some district court orders are considered “final” even though they are entered before a case has ended. Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 546-47 , 69 S.Ct. 1221 , 93 L.Ed. 1528 (1949). One such collateral order permitting interlocutory appeal is a denial of qualified immunity. Mitchell [v. Forsyth], 472 U.S. [511, 530, 105 S.Ct. 2806 , 86 L.Ed.2d 411 (1985) ]. A denial of qualified immunity is only immediately appealable, however, to the extent the district court’s decision turns on an abstract issue of law. Id. at 530, 105 S.Ct. 2806 ; Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304, 313-14, 317 , 115 S.Ct. 2151 , 132 L.Ed.2d 238 (1995). Thus, an appellate court may examine on interlocutory appeal the purely legal question of whether the facts alleged by plaintiff support a claim of violation of clearly established law. Mitchell, 472 U.S. at 528 n. 9, 105 S.Ct. 2806 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“appellate jurisdiction over “final decisions” of the district courts. Under the “collateral order” doctrine, some district court orders are considered “final” even though they are entered before final judgment has entered in the case. One such collateral order permitting interlocutory appeal is an order denying qualified immunity. A denial of qualified immunity is only immediately appealable, however, to the extent the district court’s decision turns on an abstract issue of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“refusing to maintain the road providing access to Robbins' property, cancelling Robbins' special recreation use permit and grazing privileges, bringing unfounded criminal charges against Robbins, trespassing on Robbins' private property, and interfering with Robbins' guest cattle drives.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gillmor v. Thomas
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.