Howards v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
634 F.3d 1131 · 2011
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 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 · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e review whether, under the plaintiffs version of the facts, defendants violated clearly established law. In making this determination, we must scrupulously avoid second-guessing the district court’s determinations regarding whether plaintiff has presented evidence sufficient to survive summary judgment. Rather, we review only whether defendants’ conduct, as alleged by plaintiff, violated clearly established law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. Sandoval
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.