Ward v. Dyke’s Empirical Analysis
58 F.3d 271 · 1995
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Wilson v. Yaklich (1998), Howard Dean Rouse v. Dennis L. Benson David Crist Steve C. Hokonson Timothy Lanz (1999)
20 federal appellate · 1 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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Bell v. Wolfish · Turner v. Safley
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'from liability for civil damages insofar as [his] conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person should have known.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Denial of summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity is, however, appealable immediately as a final judgment under the collateral order doctrine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The ability to transfer a prisoner who is interfering with prison administration and staff morale goes to the essence of prison management.”
1 later decision 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.