Salahuddin v. Coughlin’s Empirical Analysis
781 F.2d 24 · 1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Weber v. Dell (1986), Cannon v. City and County of Denver (1993)
10 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Haines v. Kerner · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Wood v. Strickland · Hughes v. Rowe · Olim v. Wakinekona
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he pertinent test in applying [the objective good-faith] defense is whether the federal law violated was clearly established, ... not whether a reasonable person would have known of the law. Officials are held to have constructive knowledge of established law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Charles v. Odum · Walsh v. Franco“Confining Salahuddin in an SHU pending appeal of a state court judgment releasing him would not deny him a constitutional right simply because state law concerning stays of judgments had been violated. Every violation of state law is not necessarily a denial of constitutional right. But the infliction of punishment when not authorized by state law is a classic instance of denial of liberty without due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howard v. Pierce“The pertinent test in applying [the objective good-faith] defense is whether the federal law violated was clearly established, ... not whether a reasonable person would have known of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weber v. Dell
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.