Newell v. Sauser’s Empirical Analysis
79 F.3d 115 · 1996
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Rafael Navarro v. Sherman Block (2001), Trevino v. Gates (1996)
38 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Johnson v. Jones
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“due process requires fair notice of what conduct is prohibited before a sanction can be imposed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Waymon M. Berry, III v. James H. Gomez Jack Reagan Teresa Rocha Michael Knowles Raymond Novencido Karen Larson Terry Bridges Kevin Walker · 1998 O.S.H.D. (Cch) P 31,558, 98 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 3146, 98 Daily Journal D.A.R. 4339 Stillwater Mining Company v. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission Secretary of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (Msha)“does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.