Capoeman v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
754 F.2d 1512 · 1985
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Rakovich v. Wade (1988), Wood v. Ostrander (1989)
63 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Wood v. Strickland · Davis v. Scherer · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · 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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the absence of binding precedent, a court should look to whatever decisional law is available to ascertain whether the law is clearly established under Harlow.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hewitt v. Grabicki · Ryan v. Bilby“a determination of the likelihood that the Supreme Court or this circuit would have reached the same result as courts which had previously considered the issue.”
4 later decisions 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.