Ganther v. Ingle’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.3d 207 · 1996
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Freeman v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice (2004), Adkins v. Kaspar (2004)
9 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000B
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Cruz v. Beto
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the court must determine whether the plaintiff has alleged a violation of a clearly established constitutional right. If the plaintiff fails this step, the defendant is entitled to qualified immunity. If she is successful, the issue becomes the objective legal reasonableness of the defendant’s conduct under the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“party is not entitled to a default judgment as a matter of right, even where the defendant is technically in default.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. Lynn
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.