Davis v. Holly’s Empirical Analysis
835 F.2d 1175 · 1987
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Poe v. Haydon (1988), Boretti v. Wiscomb (1991)
27 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 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Daniels v. Williams · Butz v. Economou
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A single idiosyncratic opinion from the court of appeals for another circuit was hardly sufficient to put the defendants on notice of where this circuit or the Supreme Court would come out on the issue in question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leeks v. Cunningham“clearly established statutory or constitutional right of which a reasonable person would have known.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Florio v. Skorepa“familiarity with the contents of the Federal Reporter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lintz v. Skipski
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.