Burritt v. Ditlefsen’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.3d 239 · 2015
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Payton v. New York · City of Canton v. Harris · Malley v. Briggs
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Qualified immunity protects officers performing discretionary functions from civil liability so long as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights that a reasonable person would know about. Mustafa v. City of Chicago , 442 F.3d 544 , 548 (7th Cir. 2006) (emphasis in original) (citation omitted). It protects "all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law." Malley v. Briggs , 475 U.S. 335 , 341, 106 S.Ct. 1092 , 89 L.Ed.2d 271 (1986). Once qualified immunity is raised, the plaintiff has the burden of establishing that his or her rights were violated and that the law concerning the proffered right "was clearly established at the time the challenged conduct occurred." Mustafa , 442 F.3d at 548 . Then, the court must determine whether a reasonably competent official would know that the conduct was unlawful in the situation he confronted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wozniak v. Adesida“The general rule, when the federal claims fall out before trial, is that the district court should relinquish jurisdiction over any supplemental ... state law claims in order to minimize federal judicial intrusion into matters of purely state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no duty to investigate the extenuating circumstances or search for exculpatory evidence once probable cause has been established via the accusation of a credible witness”
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.