Toevs v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
685 F.3d 903 · 2012
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 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 · Mathews v. Eldridge · Haines v. Kerner · Pearson v. Callahan · Sandin v. Conner
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]rdinarily, in order for the law to be clearly established, there must be a Supreme Court or Tenth Circuit decision on point, or the clearly established weight of authority from other courts must have found the law to be as the plaintiff maintains.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grissom v. Roberts“the exclusive justification for keeping [the prisoner] in administrative segregation was to influence him to modify his future behavior”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grissom v. Roberts“review must be meaningful; it cannot be a sham or a pretext”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grissom v. Roberts
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.