McCurry v. Tesch’s Empirical Analysis
824 F.2d 638 · 1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably Habiger v. City of Fargo (1996), Jenkins ex rel. Agyei v. Missouri (1988)
17 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
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · City of Riverside v. Rivera · Gregory v. United States · Reavis v. Antinore
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Law enforcement officers should not, on pain of having to pay damages out of their own pockets, be required to anticipate how appellate judges will apply maxims of constitutional adjudication about which even those judges sometimes disagree [-] it would be unworkable for the officers to await interpretations from federal appellate judges rendered long after the orders were executed to learn whether they will be civilly liable for performing an assigned duty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trial court is the place for the facts to be found. Appellate courts should not find the facts....”
2 later decisions 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.