Sullivan v. Flannigan’s Empirical Analysis
8 F.3d 591 · 1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2024
6 federal appellate · 1 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 · Turner v. Safley · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Vitek v. Jones · Washington v. Harper
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Flannigan“to argue capably before a review tribunal that he does not need forced medication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.