Latits v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
878 F.3d 541 · 2017
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2025
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 · Pearson v. Callahan · Scott v. Harris · Duncan v. Walker
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even if an officer acts contrary to her training, however ... that does not itself negate qualified immunity where it would otherwise be warranted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It must have been clearly established that the conduct at issue violates the Constitution, not internal policies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
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.