McCoy v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
47 F.3d 404 · 1995
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Holloman ex rel. Holloman v. Harland (2004), Lindsay v. Government Employees Insurance (2006)
14 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Q]ualified immunity seeks to ensure that defendants 'reasonably can anticipate when their conduct may give rise to liability' . . . by attaching liability only if '[t]he contours of the right [violated are] sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the term `discretionary authority' to include actions that do not necessarily involve an element of choice,”
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.