Stokes v. Gann’s Empirical Analysis
498 F.3d 483 · 2007
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Dorsey v. Portfolio Equities, Inc. (2008), Harold H. Huggins Realty, Inc. v. FNC, Inc. (2011)
20 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Rochin v. People of California · 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even to the extent that they constituted entrapment under state law, do not by themselves constitute a violation of [her] constitutional right[s]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. State“accepting all well-pleaded facts as true and viewing those facts in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Deprivations of liberty caused by 'the most egregious official conduct' may violate the Due Process Clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. State
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.