Lowinger v. Broderick’s Empirical Analysis
50 F.3d 61 · 1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2018
3 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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 Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Hunter v. Bryant · Febus-Rodriguez v. Betancourt-Lebron · Rogers v. Fair
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he analysis employed to determine whether an official is entitled to summary judgment is quite generous. A reasonable, although mistaken, conclusion about the lawfulness of one’s conduct does not subject a government official to personal lia-bility_ [T]he qualified immunity standard gives ample room for mistaken judgments by protecting all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'The qualified immunity standard gives ample room for mistaken judgments by protecting all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wood v. Clemons“[E]ven erroneous decisions by officials may be entitled to qualified immunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wood v. Clemons
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.