Warner v. Grand County’s Empirical Analysis
57 F.3d 962 · 1995
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Sutton II v. Utah State School for the Deaf and Blind 1-5 1-5 (1999), Foote v. Spiegel (1997)
18 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · City of Canton v. Harris · Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · Poland v. Arizona · Wyatt v. Cole
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“private defendants fulfill a state official's request to perform a governmental function, denial of qualified immunity would undermine its underlying purpose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“private defendants were permitted to assert qualified immunity when fulfilling duties under a government contract or following a court order.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if a state official would have been entitled to such immunity had he performed the function himself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.