West v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
771 F.3d 209 · 2014
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
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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 · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Bell v. Wolfish
Most-quoted passages
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“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 majoritye.g. King v. Rubenstein“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 majoritye.g. Graves v. Lioi
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