Reichle v. Howards’s Empirical Analysis
566 U.S. 658 · 2012
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 30 district · 11 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 3056 (Presidential Protection Assistance Act of 1976) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Pearson v. Callahan · Whren v. United States
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 391 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A clearly established right is one that is 'sufficiently clear that every reasonable official would have understood that what he is doing violates that right.'”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keates v. Koile · Adams v. Ferguson“existing precedent must have placed the statutory or constitutional question beyond debate.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keates v. Koile · Gates v. Khokhar“Qualified immunity shields government officials from civil damages liability unless the official violated a statutory or constitutional right that was clearly established at the time of the challenged conduct.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Perry · Kane v. Barger
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.