Poe v. Haydon’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.2d 418 · 1988
Citation profile
150 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 327 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Corum v. University of North Carolina (1992), Doe v. Taylor Independent School District (1994)
150 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson
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 327 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a factual dispute (i.e., a genuine issue of material fact) involving the question on which immunity turns,”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Townsend v. Cramblett · Madyum“must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.”
11 later decisions 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.