McCullum v. Tepe’s Empirical Analysis
693 F.3d 696 · 2012
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Imbler v. Pachtman · West v. Atkins · Johnson v. Jones · Ashcroft v. al-Kidd · Wyatt v. Cole
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [whether] there was a firmly rooted history of immunity for similarly situated parties at common law; and (2) whether granting immunity would be consistent with the history and purpose of § 1983,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“hinges on three of § 1983's goals: (1) protecting the public from unwarranted timidity on the part of public officials; (2) ensur[ing] that talented candidates were not deterred by the threat of damages suits from entering public service; ... and (3) guarding against the distraction from job duties that lawsuits inevitably create.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'whether policy and history form a conjunctive or disjunctive test,’ ” and we questioned whether a court may”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.