Green v. Maraio’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 1013 · 1983
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably Antoine v. Byers & Anderson, Inc. (1993), Ashelman v. Pope (1986)
37 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]sually, the defense of qualified immunity cannot support the grant of a [Rule] 12(b)(6) motion for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] judge will not be deprived of immunity because the action he took was in error, was done maliciously, or was in excess of his authority,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fields v. Soloff · Marsh v. Skinner
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.