Thorsted v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
858 F.2d 571 · 1988
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Act Up!/Portland v. Bagley (1992), Oviatt Waugh v. Pearce Oviatt Waugh (1992)
76 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Wood v. Strickland
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether, considering the charge as a whole, the court's instructions fairly and adequately covered the issues presented, correctly stated the law, and were not misleading.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he relevant inquiry is whether a reasonable government official could have believed that his conduct was lawful, in light of clearly established law and the information he possessed. This is a fact-specific, objective test.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson · No. 87-2817
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.