Backlund v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
778 F.2d 1386 · 1985
Citation profile
131 federal appellate · 12 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably School District No. 1J, Multnomah County v. ACandS, Inc. (1993), Myers v. Morris (1987)
131 federal appellate · 12 district · 7 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Davis v. Scherer · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson
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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) mistake, surprise, or excusable neglect; (2) newly discovered evidence; (3) fraud or other misconduct; (4) a void judgment; (5) a satisfied or discharged judgment; or (6) any other reason justifying relief from operation of judgment.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so egregious that any reasonable person would have recognized a constitutional violation.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Elder v. Holloway · Baker“'must show that the particular facts of [plaintiff's] case support a claim of clearly established right.'”
6 later decisions 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.