McLaurin v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
48 F.3d 944 · 1995
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020
9 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Bell v. Wolfish · Pierson v. Ray
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'from liability for civil damages insofar as [his] conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person should have known.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such pretrial matters as discovery . . ., as '[i]nquiries of this kind can be peculiarly disruptive of effective government.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Behrens v. Pelletier
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.