Lowe v. Raemisch’s Empirical Analysis
864 F.3d 1205 · 2017
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Hope v. Pelzer
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he more obviously egregious the conduct in light of prevailing [Fourth Amendment] constitutional principles, the less specificity is required from prior case law to clearly establish the violation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knopf v. Williams · McCoy v. Meyers“our sliding-scale approach may arguably conflict with recent Supreme Court precedent on qualified immunity”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knopf v. Williams · McCoy v. Meyers“it would be remarkable if the most obviously unconstitutional conduct should be the most immune from liability only because it is so flagrantly unlawful that few dare attempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Colbruno v. Kessler
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.