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George v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis

736 F.3d 829 · 2013

Citation profile

73
cited by 73 later decisions
March 2025
most recently cited

11 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Graham v. Connor

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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the scope of our review over the appeal [in this context] is circumscribed.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Thus, in this appeal, we are confined to the question of 'whether the defendant[s] would be entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law, assuming all factual disputes are resolved, and all reasonable inferences are drawn, in plaintiff's favor.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “consider questions of eviden[tiary] sufficiency, i.e., which facts a party may, or may not, be able to prove at trial.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.