Drogosch v. Metcalf’s Empirical Analysis
557 F.3d 372 · 2009
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2025
8 federal appellate ·
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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Anderson v. Creighton · Scott v. Harris · Gerstein v. Pugh · 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evaluating the defense of qualified immunity on a motion for summary judgment requires that the court “adopt [ ] ... the plaintiffs version of the facts.” Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 , 127 S.Ct. 1769, 1775 , 167 L.Ed.2d 686 (2007). “If no constitutional right would have been violated were the allegations established, there is no necessity for further inquiries concerning summary judgment.” Saucier v. Katz, 533 U.S. 194 , 201 [ 121 S.Ct. 2151 , 150 L.Ed.2d 272 ] (2001). “On the other hand, if a violation could be made out on a favorable view of the parties’ submissions, the next, sequential step is to ask whether the right was clearly established.” Id.; see Charvat v. E. Oh. Reg’l Wastewater Auth., 246 F.3d 607, 616 (6th Cir.2001) (explaining that the court must determine “whether the right is so ‘clearly established’ that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right”) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). “This inquiry ... must be undertaken in light of the specific context of the case, not as a broad general proposition.... ” Saucier, 533 U.S. at 201, 121 S.Ct. 2151 . A third consideration occasionally examined by this court to “increase the clarity” of the analysis is “whether the plaintiff offered sufficient evidence to indicate that what the official allegedly did was objectively unreasonable in light of the clearly established constitutional rights.” Estate of Carter v. City of Detroit, 408 F.3d 305 n. 2 (6th Cir.2005) (ci”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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