Robert A. Borucki v. W. Michael Ryan, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
827 F.2d 836 · 1987
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 24 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Cook (1998), Vega-Rodriguez v. Puerto Rico Telephone Co. (1997)
33 federal appellate · 24 district · 18 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 Terry v. Ohio · Conley v. Gibson · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Katz v. United States · Anderson v. Creighton
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'reasonable officer would understand that what he is doing violates that right'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[I]n assessing a claim of qualified immunity, it is not sufficient for a court to ascertain in a general sense that the alleged right existed.... [A] court must determine whether an alleged right was established with sufficient particularity that a reasonable official could anticipate that his actions would violate that right.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“an allegation that government dissemination of information or government defamation has caused damage to reputation, even with all attendant emotional anguish and social stigma, does not in itself state a cause of action for violation of a constitutional right; infringement of more `tangible interests' must be alleged as well.”
2 later decisions 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.