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Wade v. Hegner’s Empirical Analysis

804 F.2d 67 · 1986

Citation profile

79
cited by 79 later decisions
July 2002
most recently cited

44 federal appellate · 1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably Rakovich v. Wade (1988), Conner v. Reinhard (1988)

44 federal appellate · 1 district ·

400198619902000decided

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 28 U.S.C. § 1292

Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Wood v. Strickland · Brown v. Board of Education

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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) does the alleged conduct set out a constitutional violation? and (2) were the constitutional standards clearly established at the time in question?”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Greenberg v. Kmetko · Rakovich v. Wade
  2. “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.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Lewis v. O'Grady · Murphy v. Morgan
  3. “appellate review of a denial of summary judgment on the issue of qualified immunity is limited to the legal question of whether the law was well-established at the time of the conduct.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Conner v. Reinhard · Lewis v. O'Grady

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.