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Snyder v. Kurvers’s Empirical Analysis

767 F.2d 489 · 1985

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
April 1988
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988

Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Roe v. Wade · Butz v. Economou · Wood v. Strickland

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “mere articulation of a general privacy interest * * * does not end the inquiry into the issue of [qualified] immunity.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “must be examined in the light of the circumstances of the claim.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “basic, unquestioned constitutional rights.”
    1 later decision 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.