Brooks v. Clark County’s Empirical Analysis
828 F.3d 910 · 2016
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2023
3 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 · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exposed to liability (but still protected by qualified immunity) only because he allegedly went beyond what the judge ordered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“justified ... by the functions it protects and serves, not by the person to whom it attaches.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“act[s] beyond the scope of [the judge]'s express and implied instructions,”
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.