Azeez v. Fairman’s Empirical Analysis
795 F.2d 1296 · 1986
Citation profile
117 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Rakovich v. Wade (1988), Cornfield Lewis v. Consolidated High School District No (1993)
117 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Sherbert v. Verner · Oyler v. Boles · Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division
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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“right must be sufficiently particularized to put potential defendants on notice that their conduct probably is unlawful.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Abel v. Miller · Forrester v. White“[Glovernment officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“5 None of these documents actually declares the rights of the parties. The district court should have done so. Rule 58 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure instructs that”
1 later decision 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.