Schroeder v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
55 F.3d 454 · 1995
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 13 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Jones v. Blanas (2004), Rhodes v. Robinson (2004)
54 federal appellate · 13 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 1746 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs · Olim v. Wakinekona
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bruce v. Ylst · Wilson v. Kincheloe“be in abeyance and become effective upon the date of entry of an order disposing of the ... motion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A notice of appeal filed after announcement or entry of the judgment but before disposition of any of the above motions is ineffective to appeal from the judgment or order ... until the date of the entry of the order disposing of the last such motion outstanding.”
2 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.