Lojuk v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
770 F.2d 619 · 1985
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Rakovich v. Wade (1988), Conner v. Reinhard (1988)
57 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 10 U.S.C. § 1089 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 233 (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009) · 42 U.S.C. § 2458A
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Paul v. Davis · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While cases involving the exact fact pattern at bar are unnecessary, case law in a closely analogous area is crucial to permit us to conclude that reasonably diligent government officials would have known of the case law, related it to the situation at hand, and molded their conduct accordingly.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“to recognize the significance of a few scattered cases from disparate areas of the law”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'required caselaw which clearly and consistently recognized the constitutional right.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Conner v. Reinhard · Lenea v. Lane
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.