Aczel v. Labonia’s Empirical Analysis
584 F.3d 52 · 2009
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 722 F. Supp. 2d 277 - Thorsen v. County of Nassau (2010), Doe v. Constant (2009)
1 district ·
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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Stone v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp. · Gallick v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Nemaizer v. Baker
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the sound discretion of the district court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the police officer proves the facts that entitle him to qualified immunity ... judgment must be entered in his favor, notwithstanding his having violated the plaintiff's rights”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Muniz
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.