Latimore v. Widseth’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 709 · 1993
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2012 · most notably Buckley v. Fitzsimmons (1994), Gordon v. Hansen (1999)
12 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs · Hunter v. Bryant
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.
“even in the face of a clearly established (and violated) constitutional right, if the defendant can demonstrate “the ‘objective legal reasonableness’ of the action assessed in light of the legal rules that were ‘clearly established’ at the time it was taken.” Anderson, 483 U.S. at 639 , 107 S.Ct. at 3038 (citations omitted) (quoting Harlow, 457 U.S. at 819, 818 , 102 S.Ct. at 2739, 2738 ).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The availability of the defense to an official exercising discretionary authority in a particular case requires careful consideration of the established law at the time, the state actor’s objective knowledge of that law, and the complained-of conduct. “Qualified immunity protects a government official from suit if, at the time of the challenged acts, it was not clearly established that those actions would violate clearly established law of which a reasonable person would have known.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 1983, of course, requires a causal relationship between a defendant's conduct and a plaintiff's constitutional deprivation. Absent such a relationship, the defendant is entitled to dismissal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Gordon v. Hansen
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.