767 F. Supp. 2d 123 - Halcomb v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
4 district ·
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · Pearson v. Callahan · Whren v. United States · Scott v. Harris
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.
“A defendant's entitlement to qualified immunity is a question of law to be decided by the court, although sometimes, as in this case, the facts establishing what the challenged conduct was are legitimately in dispute and must first be decided by the jury before the court answers the ultimate legal question whether a defendant is entitled to qualified immunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jiggetts v. Cipullo“Claims that a jury verdict is inconsistent impose a special obligation on the court to view the evidence in a manner that reconciles the verdicts if possible, and to grant a new trial if not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Banks v. Perdue“'[S]uccessful claims of verdict inconsistency are rare,' arising only when the jury has reached conclusions that 'cannot reasonably be reconciled or sustained.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Banks v. Perdue
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.