Goddard v. Urrea’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 765 · 1988
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 33 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Stewart v. Baldwin County Board of Education (1990), Thomson v. Salt Lake County (2009)
26 federal appellate · 33 district · 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 1442 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“these disputes are irrelevant to the qualified immunity analysis because that analysis assumes the validity of the plaintiffs' facts”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“factual disputes do not affect qualified immunity analysis since 'that analysis assumes the validity of plaintiff's version of the facts and then examines whether those facts support a claim of clearly established law.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“We acknowledge that the agents' contention that the law regarding service of subpoenas with attached 'gag orders' was not clearly established at the time of this case.... That contention is to be resolved at a later time--when the facts have been established.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howell v. Evans
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.