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← 65 Wash. App. 71 - Orwick v. Fox

65 Wash. App. 71 - Orwick v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
March 2017
most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Dewey v. Tacoma School Dist. No. 10 (1999), Rodriguez v. Loudeye Corp. (2008)

31 state decisions

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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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Graham v. Commissioner · 112 Wash. 2d 216 - Young v. Key Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.’ ” 5 Orwick v. Fox, 65 Wn. App. 71, 83, 828 P.2d 12 (quoting Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818 , 73 L. Ed. 2d 396 , 102 S. Ct. 2727 (1982)), review denied, 120 Wn.2d 1014 (1992); Gurno v. LaConner, 65 Wn. App. 218, 227 , 828 P.2d 49 , review denied, 119 Wn.2d 1019 (1992).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “`[a]n employer and its employees are jointly and severally liable for the negligent acts of the employee in the scope of employment, and one damaged by such acts can sue both the employer and the employee or either separately.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “Because qualified immunity entitles a government official to immunity from suit rather than a mere defense to liability, it is essential that `insubstantial claims' be resolved as quickly as possible.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.