Figgs v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
829 F.3d 895 · 2016
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2025
7 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Pearson v. Callahan · Parratt v. Taylor · Duncan v. Walker
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The law is 'clearly established' when 'various courts have agreed that certain conduct is a constitutional violation under facts not distinguishable in a fair way from the facts presented in the case at hand.' " (quoting Campbell v. Peters , 256 F.3d 695 , 701 (7th Cir. 2001) ) ). "[W]e look first to controlling Supreme Court precedent and our own circuit decisions on the issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(quoting Campbell v. Peters , 256 F.3d 695 , 701 (7th Cir. 2001) ) ).”
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.