Klein v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 368 · 1988
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Jones v. City of Chicago (1988), Brownell v. Figel (1991)
19 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))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable officer in like circumstances would have acted as the defendants did[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f there are issues of disputed fact upon which the question of immunity turns, or if it is clear that the defendant's conduct did violate clearly established norms the case must proceed to trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. O'Grady
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.