Brown v. Glossip’s Empirical Analysis
878 F.2d 871 · 1989
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Snyder v. Trepagnier (1998), McDonald ex rel. McDonald v. Haskins (1992)
28 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Elliott v. Perez · Shillingford v. Holmes
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“facts which, if proved, would defeat [the] claim of immunity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'evidence that the officer harbored ill-will toward the citizen'[,] ... whether a warrant was employed, whether the plaintiff resisted arrest or was armed, whether more than one arrestee or officer was involved, whether the plaintiff was sober, whether other dangerous or exigent circumstances existed at the time of arrest, and on what charges plaintiff was arrested”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The purpose of requiring such allegations is, of course, to permit the trial court, and our court on review, if necessary, to implement a qualified immunity defense 'at the earliest possible stage of litigation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Westfall v. Luna
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.