Craft v. Wipf’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.2d 170 · 1987
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Musso v. Hourigan (1988), Turner II v. Dammon J (1988)
27 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Richardson-Merrell Inc. v. Koller Ex Rel. Koller · In re Martin-Trigona
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a district court's denial of a claim of qualified immunity, to the extent that it turns on an issue of law, is an appealable 'final decision' within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291, notwithstanding the absence of a final judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gometz v. Culwell“we believe it best to avoid hinging appealability itself on the degree of 'factualness' of the issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Parton v. Ashcroft“[t]he District Court in this case simply did not rule on the qualified immunity issue.”
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.