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Jackson v. Gutzmer’s Empirical Analysis

866 F.3d 969 · 2017

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
April 2025
most recently cited

4 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pearson v. Callahan · Malley v. Briggs · Sandin v. Conner

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The pretrial denial of qualified immunity is an appealable final order to the extent it turns on an issue of law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “have different meanings, and the two together establish a higher level of intent than would either alone.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “maliciously and sadistically to cause harm”
    1 later decision 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.