King v. Ambs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Qualified immunity is an affirmative defense that shields government officials from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known. There are two steps in the analysis: (1) whether, considering the allegations in a light most favorable to the party injured, a constitutional right has been violated, and (2) whether that right was clearly established ... When considering a claim of qualified immunity, “[t]he relevant, dispositive inquiry in determining whether a right is clearly established is whether it would be clear to a reasonable officer that his conduct was unlawful in the situation he confronted.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 561 F. Supp. 2d 767 - Young v. City of Radcliff

2. “the State has a legitimate interest in enforcing its traffic laws and its officers were entitled to enforce them free from possible interference or interruption from bystanders, even those claiming a third-party interest in the transaction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Body

3. “the Court held that Colten 'was not engaged in activity protected by the First Amendment' because '[h]e had no constitutional right to observe the issuance of a traffic ticket or to engage the issuing officer in conversation at that time.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Body