Ratliff v. County Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably 213 F. Supp. 2d 411 - Lange v. Town of Monroe (2002), 4 F. Supp. 2d 1331 - Givhan v. Electronic Engineers, Inc. (1998)
2 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 · Johnson v. Jones · Swint v. Chambers County Commission · Digital Equipment Corp. v. Desktop Direct, Inc. · Lassiter v. Alabama
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because qualified immunity is only a defense to personal liability for monetary awards resulting from government officials performing discretionary functions, qualified immunity may not be effectively asserted as a defense to a claim for declaratory or injunctive relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Collier v. Buckner“[W]e decline to review the denial of summary judgment on [the] ground ... [that] the district court in considering defendant's motions assumed erroneous facts or assumed facts which were unsupported by the evidence in the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. Schwalbe“no clearly established right exists under the equal protection clause to be free from retaliation.”
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.