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845 F.3d 13 · 2016

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
February 2025
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 5 district ·

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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Anderson v. Creighton · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Pearson v. Callahan

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a fancy way of saying 'there is an emergency or other urgent need.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “[m]ere negligence will not suffice: the supervisor's conduct must evince 'reckless or callous indifference 9 A brief aside: as will become apparent, because we can resolve the appellate contentions on other requisite components of the global legal claims advanced by Justiniano, we really don't need to determine whether Walker's conduct constituted a violation of Justiniano's constitutional rights. This is true later, too, when we tackle the Walker-summary-judgment issue. We take this approach not only because when "it is not necessary to decide more, it is necessary not to decide more,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “Qualified immunity protects an officer from suit when a reasonable decision in the line of duty ends up being a bad guess -- in other words, it shields from liability 'all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.'”
    1 later decision 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.