Bonitz v. Fair’s Empirical Analysis
804 F.2d 164 · 1986
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably No. 90-6051 (1991), Michenfelder v. Sumner (1988)
105 federal appellate · 8 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Wolff v. McDonnell · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Bell v. Wolfish
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'consider the correctness of the plaintiff's facts, nor even determine whether the plaintiff's allegations actually state a claim,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“since ... immunity depends only upon the clarity of the right allegedly violated, the only 'facts' we need to know are those that constitute the harm alleged by the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rosado v. Zayas · Unwin v. Campbell“finding that the constitutional right to be free from an abusive strip search was clearly established at the time of the search [in 1982].”
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.