Wolfenbarger v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
826 F.2d 930 · 1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2003 · most notably Horton v. California (1990), Burns v. Reed (1991)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“); Wolfenbarger v. Williams, 826 F.2d 930 (10th Cir.1987) (”
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.