Stella v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
63 F.3d 71 · 1995
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Dickerson v. Mcclellan (1996), Fleet Data Processing Corp. v. Branch (In Re Bank of New England Corp.) (1998)
56 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 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 · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Perry v. Sindermann
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a district court's pre-trial rejection of a qualified immunity defense is not immediately appealable to the extent that it turns on either an issue of fact or an issue perceived by the trial court to be an issue of fact.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Diaz v. Martinez · Goguen v. Allen“a defendant, entitled to invoke a qualified-immunity defense, may not appeal a district court's summary judgment order insofar as that order determines whether or not the pretrial record sets forth a 'genuine' issue of fact for trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e lack the power to inquire into, or address ... the fact-based question of what the evidence does (or does not) show concerning whether the [defendant's] actions violated the asserted right.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dorothy C. Elliott, Individually and as Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Archie Elliott, III Archie Elliott, Jr., Individually and as Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Archie Elliott, III v. Jason Leavitt, Police Officer for District Heights, Md, and Prince George's County, Maryland David B. Mitchell, Prince George's County Police Chief Wayne Cheney, Police Officer City of District Heights, Md Michael Conboy, Police Chief for District Heights, Md, Dorothy C. Elliott, Individually and as Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Archie Elliott, III Archie Elliott, Jr., Individually and as Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Archie Elliott, III v. Wayne Cheney, Police Officer, and Jason Leavitt, Police Officer for District Heights, Md Prince George's County, Maryland David B. Mitchell, Prince George's County Police Chief City of District Heights, Md Michael Conboy, Police Chief for District Heights, Md · Elliott III
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.