Braun v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
652 F.3d 557 · 2011
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Illinois v. Gates · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Bell v. Wolfish
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ensures that officials are not unfairly strung up for money damages as a result of bad guesses in gray areas”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sims v. Labowitz“have placed the statutory or constitutional question beyond debate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sims v. Labowitz
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.