T.D. v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
868 F.3d 1209 · 2017
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2024
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Conley v. Gibson · Anderson v. Creighton · Pearson v. Callahan
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'existing precedent must have placed the statutory or constitutional question beyond debate.' " White v. Pauly , --- U.S. ----, 137 S.Ct. 548 , 551, 196 L.Ed.2d 463 (2017) (quoting Mullenix v. Luna , --- U.S. ----, 136 S.Ct. 305 , 308, 193 L.Ed.2d 255 (2015) ). Although there need not be a " 'case directly on point,' " id. (quoting Mullenix , 136 S.Ct. at 308 ), "[a]n officer 'cannot be said to have violated a clearly established right unless the right's contours were sufficiently definite that any reasonable official in his shoes would have understood that he was violating it....' " City & Cty. of San Francisco v. Sheehan , --- U.S. ----, 135 S.Ct. 1765 , 1774, 191 L.Ed.2d 856 (2015) (brackets omitted) (quoting Plumhoff v. Rickard , --- U.S. ----, 134 S.Ct. 2012 , 2023, 188 L.Ed.2d 1056 (2014) ). Courts must not define "clearly established law at a high level of generality.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knopf v. Williams · Burke v. Glanz“A plaintiff may show clearly established law by pointing to either a Supreme Court or Tenth Circuit decision, or the weight of authority from other courts, existing at the time of the alleged violation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knopf v. Williams · Leiser v. Moore“'sufficiently definite that any reasonable official in [the official's] shoes would have understood that he was violating it.' " T.D. v. Patton , 868 F.3d at 1220 (quoting City & Cty. Of San Francisco v. Sheehan , --- U.S. ----, 135 S.Ct. 1765 , 1774, 191 L.Ed.2d 856 (2015) ). The right must not be defined at a "high level of generality,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knopf v. Williams · Burke v. Glanz
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.