Lion Boulos v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
834 F.2d 504 · 1987
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Johnson v. Jones (1995), Moss v. U.S. Secret Service (2009)
41 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 7414
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Mitchell v. Forsyth · United States v. Stauffer Chemical Co.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Harlow [v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 , 102 S.Ct. 2727 , 73 L.Ed.2d 396 (1982) ], Mitchell, and Jacquez [v. Procunier, 801 F.2d 789 (5th Cir.1986) ] make clear that qualified immunity does not shield government officials from all discovery but only from discovery which is either avoidable or overly broad. Discovery designed to flesh out the merits of a plaintiff’s claim before a ruling on the immunity defense or discovery permitted in cases where the defendant is clearly entitled to immunity would certainly fall within this category. Immediate appeal would lie from these orders because Harlow, Mitchell, and Jacquez require that immune defendants be exempt from avoidable, burdensome pretrial matters.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“defendant's immunity claim turns at least partially on a factual question.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Maxey ex rel. Maxey v. Fulton · Scott Furman Maxey, a Minor, by His Mother & Next Friend, Dianna Maxey v. Robert Fulton, Individually Julia Teska, Individually Harold E. Goldman, Individually Heriberto Martinez, Individually John Dentist, Individually John Doctor, Individually Jane Doctor, Individually, and James Borren, Individually, Joseph Donald Cole, by His Mother & Next Friend, Virginia Cole v. Robert Fulton, Individually Julia Teska, Individually Harold E. Goldman, Individually Luis A. Reinoso, Individually John Doctor, Individually Jane Doctor, Individually John Dentist, Individually, and James Borren, Individually“Qualified immunity protects government officials serving in a discretionary capacity from liability for actions undertaken in their official capacity. The purpose of the doctrine is to avoid ‘distraction of officials from their governmental duties, inhibition of discretionary action and deterrence of able people from public service.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.