Perry v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.2d 279 · 1986
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Rakovich v. Wade (1988), Hunter v. Allis-Chalmers Corp. (1986)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Smith v. Wade
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not to prevent the plaintiff from being overcompensated but rather to prevent the tortfeasor from paying twice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it would be illogical to extend good faith immunity to a government official who has intentionally violated an individual's constitutional rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powers v. Lightner“had the opportunity to argue the mitigation evidence to the jury and offer an instruction regarding mitigation of earnings.”
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.