Feagley v. Waddill’s Empirical Analysis
868 F.2d 1437 · 1989
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Salas v. Carpenter (1992), Pfannstiel v. City of Marion (1990)
35 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Parratt v. Taylor
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if disputed factual issues material to immunity are present, the district court's denial of summary judgment sought on the basis of immunity is not appealable.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An appellate court has jurisdiction to review an interlocutory denial of qualified immunity only to the extent that it 'turns on an issue of law.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here the state does not provide treatment designed to improve a mentally [handicapped] individual's condition, it deprives the individual of nothing guaranteed by the Constitution; it simply fails to grant a benefit of optimal treatment that it is under no obligation to grant.”
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.