Littlejohn v. Rose’s Empirical Analysis
768 F.2d 765 · 1985
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Newsom v. Norris (1989), Wright v. MetroHealth Medical Center (1995)
35 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Perry v. Sindermann · Roe v. Wade · Paul 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“neither the credibility or weight of the evidence should be considered.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... the Supreme Court clearly [has] held that decisions regarding marital status are protected by the constitutional right to privacy: Although “[t]he Constitution does not explicitly mention any right of privacy,” the Court has recognized that one aspect of the “liberty” protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is “a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy.” This right of personal privacy includes “the interest in independence in making certain kinds of important decisions.” While the outer limits of this aspect of privacy have not been marked by the Court, it is clear that among the decisions that an individual may make without unjustified government interference are personal decisions “relating to marriage”; procreation; contraception; ... and family relationships.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he qualified immunity defense only protects the superintendent in his individual capacity from money damages, not from other forms of relief sought such as reinstatement. ... Accordingly, the availability of qualified immunity that would enable an individual defendant to escape individual liability for money damages would not warrant the dismissal of claims against that defendant in his official capacity or against a governmental entity”), ce rt. denied 475 U.S. 1045 , 106 S.Ct. 1260 , 89 L.Ed.2d 570 (1986); Patton v. Conrad Area School Dist., 388 F.Supp. 410, 418 (D.Del.1975) (holding, prior to Monell , that “the only defendants who can be ordered to reinstate a plaintiff and have the power to do so are individual defendants in their official capacities”
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.