Benson v. Allphin’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 268 · 1986
Citation profile
135 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Medina v. City & County Denver (1992), Myers v. Morris (1987)
135 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 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. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois
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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whenever a balancing of interests is required, the facts of the existing caselaw must closely correspond to the contested action before the defendant official is subject to liability under ... Harlow”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly established ... constitutional right of which a reasonable person would have known.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“could have the practical effect of converting qualified immunity into absolute immunity.”
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.