Sinclair v. Schriber’s Empirical Analysis
834 F.2d 103 · 1987
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2020
16 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 1406
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Abney v. United States
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“). The Sinclair court's concern to avoid successive interlocutory appeals of renewed motions for summary judgment on the ground of qualified immunity can be accommodated without creating a blanket rule that prevents the consideration of such motions under all circumstances. The Ninth Circuit in Behrens had created a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McCloud v. Testa“a district court's denial of a claim of qualified immunity, to the extent that it turns on an issue of law, is an appealable 'final decision' within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 1291 notwithstanding the absence of a final judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McCloud v. Testa“[d]efendants should renotice their motion for summary judgment shortly after the conclusion of discovery, if they continue to believe they are entitled to such relief in light of the information disclosed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCloud v. Testa
How this case has been treated — in progress
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