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Abel v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

824 F.2d 1522 · 1987

Citation profile

62
cited by 62 later decisions
November 2016
most recently cited

32 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Rakovich v. Wade (1988), Conner v. Reinhard (1988)

32 federal appellate ·

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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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Bell v. Wolfish · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle

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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “... the right the official is alleged to have violated must have been “clearly established” in a more particularized, and hence more relevant, sense: The contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would un derstand that what he is doing violates that right.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Klein v. Ryan · Easter House v. Felder
  2. “[t]o determine whether such legal norms existed at the pertinent time, we often refer to closely analogous case law, decided before the public official acted or failed to act.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Williams v. Lane
  3. “whether the legal norms allegedly violated by the defendant were clearly established at the time of the challenged actions.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Williams v. Lane

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.