Windsor v. The Tennessean’s Empirical Analysis
719 F.2d 155 · 1983
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 352 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Scheid v. Fanny Farmer Candy Shops, Inc. (1988), Nishiyama v. Dickson County (1987)
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1505 · 18 U.S.C. § 372 · 28 U.S.C. § 542 · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 5 U.S.C. § 4303 · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974) · 5 U.S.C. § 7211
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Paul v. Davis
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 352 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen evaluating a motion to dismiss brought pursuant to rule 12(b)(6), [is to regard] the factual allegations in the complaint ... as true.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trial judge is to apply this purely objective test as a matter of law before discovery occurs. If the law which the defendant is alleged to have violated is clearly established, then the qualified immunity defense should fail and discovery should proceed. If the law is not clearly established, the defendant is immune.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a supervisor possesses unconditional power to discharge a subordinate, that employee obviously has no entitlement to his job.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Donald v. Hunt · Gregory v. Hunt
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.