Harper v. Blumenthal’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2019
6 federal appellate · 5 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 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Scheuer v. Rhodes · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · United States v. Diebold, 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although Butz counsels that such determinations should be made, when possible, on summary judgment to protect government officers from harassment suits, the good faith issue in this case requires a resolution of questions of fact hotly contested by the parties, a function not appropriate on a motion for summary judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Torname v. Phair“It . is the existence of reasonable grounds for the belief formed at the time and in light of all the circumstances, coupled with good-faith belief, that affords a basis for qualified immunity of executive officers for acts performed in the course of official conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Torname v. Phair“[a] decision on Bruce’s qualified immunity defense . . . would require an investigation into his motives, belief in the truth of the facts he relied upon in making his decision, and his objectively evaluated conformance with known procedures and rights .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harper v. Miller
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.