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West v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis

771 F.3d 209 · 2014

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
September 2024
most recently cited

6 federal appellate ·

Relationships

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

Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Bell v. Wolfish

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “We do not require that a prior case be identical to the case at bar for fair notice to be provided.” West v. Murphy, 771 F.3d 209 , 216 (4th Cir. 2014) (citing Hope, 536 U.S. at 741 , 122 S.Ct. 2508 ). Instead, a law is clearly established”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “take care not to define a case's 'context' in a manner that imports genuinely disputed factual propositions.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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