Scott v. Lacy’s Empirical Analysis
811 F.2d 1153 · 1987
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Behrens v. Pelletier (1996), DeVargas v. Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason Co. (1988)
36 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Malley v. Briggs · Kennedy v. City of Cleveland
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] public official who is a defendant in a suit [for injunctive relief] is not `on trial' at all. The suit seeks relief against him in his official capacity; he need not attend the trial, which will be conducted by attorneys representing the governmental body.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“declaration that the official is immune from damages ends the case for that official personally, even though it may not end the case for the body he represents.”
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.