Gustafson v. Adkins’s Empirical Analysis
803 F.3d 883 · 2015
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2023
7 federal appellate ·
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 5 U.S.C. § 2302 · 5 U.S.C. § 8101 (Attendant Allowance Adjustment Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 8132
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Johnson v. Jones · Marks v. United States · Brosseau v. Haugen · Bush v. Lucas
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the burden is on plaintiffs to demonstrate the alleged violation of their [constitutional] right[s] was 'clearly established.' " Id. "To be clearly established at the time of the challenged conduct, the right's contours must be sufficiently clear that every reasonable official would have understood that what he is doing violates that right....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“but existing precedent must have placed the statutory or constitutional question beyond debate.”
2 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.