Anderson v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
469 F.3d 910 · 2006
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably Cortez v. McCauley (2007), Casey v. City of Federal Heights (2007)
12 federal appellate · 14 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 Anderson v. Creighton · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Hope v. Pelzer · Whalen v. Roe
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plaintiff can demonstrate that a constitutional right is clearly established by reference to cases from the [United States] Supreme Court, the Tenth Circuit, or the weight of authority from other circuits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To be clearly established, the contours of a right must be ‘sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.’ ... This means that there need not be precise factual correspondence between earlier cases and the case at hand, because ‘general statements of the law are not inherently incapable of giving fair and clear warning....’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“preserve this request before this Court.” (Appellee's Response Br. at 15.) Because we generally ”do[] not consider an issue not passed upon below,” the district court can”
1 later decision 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.