Bennett v. Krakowski’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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

1. “it is well-established that an order denying qualified immunity to a public official is immediately appealable pursuant to the collateral order doctrine to the extent that a summary judgment order denies qualified immunity based on a pure issue of law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Berkshire v. Beauvais · Randy Berkshire v. Debra Dahl

2. “Michigan law provides governmental employees acting on behalf of a governmental agency with immunity from tort liability for injuries they cause during the course of their employment if all of the following are met: (1) the employee is acting or reasonably believes, he or she is acting within the scope of his or her authority; (2) the governmental agency is engaged in the exercise or discharge of a governmental function; and (3) the employee’s conduct ‘does not amount to gross negligence that is the proximate cause of the injury or damage.’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Zdrowski v. Rieck

3. “'must avoid substituting [their] personal notions of proper police procedure for the instantaneous decision of the officer at the scene'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bodager v. Campbell