Garrett v. Rader’s Empirical Analysis
831 F.2d 202 · 1987
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Pueblo Neighborhood Health Centers, Inc. v. Losavio (1988), DeVargas v. Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason Co. (1988)
20 federal appellate · 1 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 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 · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Ingraham v. Wright
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be determined in a particularized sense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“general, well developed legal principles.”
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.