Kelley v. Borg’s Empirical Analysis
60 F.3d 664 · 1995
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Jackson v. McIntosh (1996), Brewster v. Board of Education of the Lynwood Unified School District (1998)
28 federal appellate · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Siegert v. Gilley · Romero v. Kitsap County · Levald, Inc. v. City of Palm Desert
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“hold[ing] that [the right should have been defined more narrowly ... would be to allow Appellants, and future defendants, to define away all potential claims”). 11 . Sharrar does not completely forestall a district court from submitting a question of qualified immunity to a jury. As Chief Judge Sloviter noted:”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether that right was so clearly established as to alert a reasonable officer to its constitutional parameters.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]road rights must be particularized before they are subjected to the clearly established test.”
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.