Velasquez v. Senko’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 1509 · 1987
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Armendariz v. Penman (1996), Joseph Locurto v. Howard Safir Commissioner of the New York City (2001)
28 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Abney v. United States · 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“involves a legal issue 'conceptually distinct' from the merits of [a] plaintiff's claim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“claim that the law they [were] accused of violating was not clearly established, [i]nstead, they present[ed] a disputed factual issue, inextricably bound up in the underlying claim ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[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. § 1291....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.