Powers v. Lightner’s Empirical Analysis
752 F.2d 1251 · 1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Imbler v. Pachtman · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Washington v. Davis
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[preserving] the respect due trial judges by minimizing appellate-court interference with the numerous decisions they must make in the pre-judgment stages of litigation [and reducing] the ability of litigants to harass opponents and to clog the courts through a succession of costly and time-consuming appeals.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[c]laims of qualified immunity are more likely to be inseparably intertwined with the merits of the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lojuk v. Johnson
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.