Stanley v. Gallegos’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.3d 1210 · 2017
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
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. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if an official acts outside of his scope of authority, as defined by clearly established state law, he 'forfeits' his right to have a federal court in a § 1983 action consider the merits of his defense that his actions did not violate clearly established federal law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Cummings v. Dean“Officials sued for constitutional violations do not lose their qualified immunity merely because their conduct violates some statutory or administrative provision [of state law].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Cummings v. Dean
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.