Fields v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
652 F.3d 886 · 2011
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Pearson v. Callahan · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al.
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) that [Andrea] was a member of a limited, precisely definable group, that the defendants’ conduct put [her] at a significant risk of serious, immediate, and proximate harm, (3) that the risk was obvious or known to the defendants, (4) that the defendants acted recklessly in conscious disregard of the risk, and (5) that in total, the defendants’ conduct shocks the conscience.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“which of the two prongs of the qualified immunity analysis should be addressed first in light of the circumstances in the particular case at hand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Groenewold v. Kelley
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.