Johnson v. Clifton’s Empirical Analysis
74 F.3d 1087 · 1996
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Cottrell v. Caldwell (1996), McMillian v. We Johnson (1996)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he court of appeals can simply take, as given, the facts that the district court assumed when it denied summary judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] denial of qualified immunity at summary judgment necessarily involves two determinations: 1) that on the facts before the court, taken in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, a reasonable jury could find that the defendant engaged in certain conduct, and 2) that the conduct violated “clearly established law” such that a reasonable person in the defendant’s position would have had notice that his actions were unlawful.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“must determine whether there is a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the defendant committed conduct that violated clearly established law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Koch v. Rugg · Koch v. Rugg
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.