Joseph v. Brierton’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.2d 1244 · 1984
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Rakovich v. Wade (1988), Duckworth v. Franzen (1985)
60 federal appellate · 1 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Werner v. Upjohn Co. · Wood v. Worachek · Thomas v. Pate
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shielded from liability for 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. Jones v. Preuit“the efficacy of [a curative] instruction is always uncertain, and where the misconduct giving rise to it is as serious as it was in this case stronger medicine may be needed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davidson v. Smith“Naturally, in reviewing questions concerning remarks alleged to have misled the jury, we give great weight to the district judge's judgment.”
1 later decision 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.