Allen’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Pb Nb Sg Lg Cd Dd v. Koch, 208 F. Supp. 2d 1125 - Munoz v. Kolender (2002)
2 district · 2 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Wolff v. McDonnell · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of preexisting binding precedent within this circuit, this court look[s] at all available decisional law including decisions ... of other circuits to determine whether a plaintiff has shown that the illegality of a defendant's conduct should have been apparent when it occurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. P.B., on Her Own Behalf and on Behalf of N.B., a Minor S.G., on Her Own Behalf and on Behalf of L.G., a Minor C.D., on Her Own Behalf and on Behalf of D.D. v. Alfred Koch, Principal of Preston High School, and Scott Beckstead Mary Jo Roberts George Wilcox Orson Bowler · Pb Nb Sg Lg Cd Dd v. Koch“A defendant cannot inject into an interlocutory appeal issues that are otherwise not immediately appealable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. P.B., on Her Own Behalf and on Behalf of N.B., a Minor S.G., on Her Own Behalf and on Behalf of L.G., a Minor C.D., on Her Own Behalf and on Behalf of D.D. v. Alfred Koch, Principal of Preston High School, and Scott Beckstead Mary Jo Roberts George Wilcox Orson Bowler · Pb Nb Sg Lg Cd Dd v. Koch“[I]t does not require sophisticated `legal scholarship' to know that a plaintiff's access [to] the courts could be hindered seriously by an inability to make multiple, accurate copies of legal documents.”
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.