Washington v. Haupert’s Empirical Analysis
481 F.3d 543 · 2007
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Springer v. Durflinger (2008), Omnicare, Inc. v. Unitedhealth Group, Inc. (2011)
15 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Beck v. State of Ohio
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On summary judgment a court may not make credibility determinations, weigh the evidence, or decide which inferences to draw from the facts; these are jobs for a factfinder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Engel v. Buchan“[A]n officer may make a warrantless arrest consistent with the Fourth Amendment if there is 'probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed.'”
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.