Garmon v. Foust’s Empirical Analysis
741 F.2d 1069 · 1984
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably United States v. Williams (1987), United States v. Glover (1997)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Pierson v. Ray · Butz v. Economou · United States v. Place
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[T]he decision by governmental authorities to exert dominion and control over the package for their own purposes clearly constituted a `seizure'....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The risk of the package's disappearance before a warrant could be obtained outweighed ... [the] interest in possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.