Mitchell v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
818 F.3d 436 · 2016
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2022
4 federal appellate ·
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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Pearson v. Callahan · Roe v. Wade · Duncan v. Walker
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“permitted to exercise their sound discretion in deciding which of the two prongs of the qualified immunity analysis should be addressed first in light of the circumstances in the particular case at hand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Whalen v. McMullen“whether: (1) the facts adduced constitute the violation of a constitutional right; and (2) the constitutional right was clearly established at the time of the alleged violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whalen v. McMullen“even medical and scientific decisions are not immune from invidious and illegitimate race-based motivations and purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hines v. Youseff
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.