Flinn v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
775 F.2d 1551 · 1985
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Rich v. Dollar (1988), Randall v. Scott (2010)
22 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... a district court's denial of a claim of qualified immunity, to the extent that it turns on an issue of law, is an appealable 'final decision' within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291 notwithstanding the absence of a final judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[H]e certainly had a constitutional right to run for office and to hold office once elected.... ”); Washington v. Finlay, 664 F.2d 913 , 927-28 (4th Cir.1981) (recognizing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murphy v. Cockrell
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.