Gann v. Cline’s Empirical Analysis
519 F.3d 1090 · 2008
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Estate of Booker v. Gomez (2014), Dias v. City & County of Denver (2009)
17 federal appellate · 12 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Elrod v. Burns · Duncan v. Walker
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plaintiff can demonstrate that a constitutional right is clearly established by reference to cases from the Supreme Court, the Tenth Circuit, or the weight of authority from other circuits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shields public officials ... from damages actions unless their conduct was unreasonable in light of clearly established law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficiently clear that every reasonable official would have understood that what he is doing violates that right.”
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.