Figueroa v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 1405 · 1993
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Trevino v. Gates (1996), Grossman v. City of Portland (1994)
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Siegert v. Gilley · Collins v. City of Harker Heights
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“allege[ ] a violation of a right that was clearly established ... at the time”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“looking at those cases that are 'most like' the instant case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tomas Armendariz Rosa Armendariz Harry Julian Brown, Jr. Lance A. Bukouskis v. James F. Penman W.R. Holcomb David M. Stachowski Cecil Dillard Kenneth J. Henderson, Tomas Armendariz Rosa C. Armendariz Harry Julian Brown, Jr. Lance A. Bukouskis v. James F. Penman W.R. Holcomb David M. Stachowski Cecil Dillard Kenneth J. Henderson, and Al Boughey Larry Reed, Tomas Armendariz Rosa C. Armendariz v. James F. Penman · Armendariz“To be clearly established, the law must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right. It is not necessary that the alleged act have been previously declared unconstitutional, as long as the unlawfulness was apparent in light of preexisting law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Trevino v. Gates
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.