Defore v. Premore’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.3d 48 · 1996
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2019
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Parham v. J. R. · Connie Robison v. Susan R. Via and Harold Harrison · Van Emrik v. Chemung County Department of Social Services
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We can well understand the distress of the parents that their child was in the custody of public officials on the basis of ... allegations that were ultimately determined to be unfounded. But the proper means to challenge such assertions of public authority are by recourse to state courts to test continued public custody, not to seek to hold publicly employed caseworkers liable for damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Qualified immunity insulates public officials from claims for damages where their conduct does not violate 'clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barnes v. Harling
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.