Dominque v. Telb’s Empirical Analysis
831 F.2d 673 · 1987
Citation profile
134 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 249 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Pueblo Neighborhood Health Centers, Inc. v. Losavio (1988), Poe v. Haydon (1988)
134 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Gomez v. Toledo
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 249 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rights were so clearly established when the acts were committed that any officer in the defendant's position, measured objectively, would have clearly understood that he was under an affirmative duty to have refrained from such conduct.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Poe v. Haydon · Tucker v. Callahan“federal constitutional, statutory or case law existing at the time,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“plead[ing] facts which, if true, describe a violation of a clearly established statutory or constitutional right of which a reasonable public official, under an objective standard, would have known.”
4 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.