Evans v. Wh Dillahunty E’s Empirical Analysis
711 F.2d 828 · 1983
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2006 · most notably Mitchell v. Forsyth (1985), Cleavinger v. Saxner (1985)
63 federal appellate · 5 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou · Nixon v. Fitzgerald
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“decide[s] to grant, deny, or revoke parole,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nelson v. Balazic · Moiser v. Blum“that motions for summary judgment and motions to dismiss that are premised on absolute or qualified immunity are immediately appealable [if] ... [t]he essential facts are not in dispute ... and ... the determination of whether the government official is entitled to immunity is solely a question of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Bell · Bell v. Sellevold“We therefore hold that government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bell v. Sellevold
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.