Wilson v. Northcutt’s Empirical Analysis
441 F.3d 586 · 2006
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Peterson v. Kopp (2014), McDonough v. Anoka County (2015)
20 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Crawford-El v. Britton · Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Samara Bros. · Zelman v. Simmons-Harris · Kiel v. Select Artificials, Inc.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[l]iability for damages for a federal constitutional tort is personal, so each defendant's conduct must be independently assessed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.