Bearden v. Lemon’s Empirical Analysis
475 F.3d 926 · 2007
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably United States v. Lucas (2007), United States v. Williams (2015)
21 federal appellate ·
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 · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“summary judgment determinations are appealable when they resolve a dispute concerning an abstract issue of law relating to qualified immunity . . . typically, the issue whether the federal right allegedly infringed was clearly established”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duckworth“In considering the immediate appeal from the denial of qualified immunity, the appealable issue is a purely legal one, whether the facts alleged . . . support a claim of violation of clearly established law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duckworth“[T]he law is settled that as a general matter the First Amendment prohibits government officials from subjecting an individual to retaliatory actions ... for speaking out ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morgan v. Robinson
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.