Hartsfield v. Lemacks’s Empirical Analysis
50 F.3d 950 · 1995
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Sapuppo v. Allstate Floridian Insurance (2014), Jenkins Hall (1997)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Katz v. United States · Anderson v. Creighton · Payton v. New York · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Steagald v. United States
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We note that issues that clearly are not designated in the initial brief ordinarily are considered abandoned.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For qualified immunity to be surrendered, pre-existing law must dictate, that is, truly compel (not just suggest or allow or raise a question about), the conclusion for every like-situated, reasonable government agent that what defendant is doing violates federal law in the circumstances. Public officials are not obligated to be creative or imaginative in drawing analogies from previously decided cases. If case law, in factual terms, has not staked out a bright line, qualified immunity almost always protects the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[although we recognize the need to allow some latitude for honest mistakes that are made by officers in the dangerous and difficult process of making arrests and executing search warrants, ... Newton’s actions in this case were simply not consistent with a reasonable effort to ascertain and identify the place intended to be searched, as dictated by [Maryland v. Garrison, 480 U.S. 79 , 107 S.Ct. 1013 , 94 L.Ed.2d 72 (1987) ].””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.