Albright v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
51 F.3d 1531 · 1995
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 72 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 195 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Ernest Medina v. Michael Cram - Ralph Bruning City of Colorado Springs Loren Kramer (2001), Cortez v. McCauley (2007)
72 federal appellate · 72 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Kolender v. Lawson
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 195 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinarily, in order for the law to be clearly established, there must be a Supreme Court or Tenth Circuit decision on point, or the clearly established weight of authority from other courts must have found the law to be as the plaintiff maintains.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]fficers may rely on information furnished by other law enforcement officials to establish reasonable suspicion ... and to develop probable cause for an arrest.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Qualified immunity is designed to shield public officials from liability and ensure that erroneous suits do not even go to trial.”
3 later decisions 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.