Flowers v. City of Minneapolis’s Empirical Analysis
478 F.3d 869 · 2007
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Zutz v. Nelson (2010), Winslow v. Smith (2012)
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 Daniels v. Williams · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the official violated one or more fundamental constitutional rights, and (2) that the conduct of the executive official was shocking to the contemporary conscience.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“individual liberty against certain government actions regardless of the fairness of the procedures used to implement them.”
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.