Ginter v. Stallcup’s Empirical Analysis
869 F.2d 384 · 1989
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Ewolski v. City of Brunswick (2002), Lawmaster v. Ward (1997)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Paul v. Davis · Imbler v. Pachtman
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the parties disagree as to what actions the law enforcement officers took and if the plaintiff can present some evidence to support [his] allegations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haenchen v. Riley“if 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 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.