Brandenburg v. Cureton’s Empirical Analysis
882 F.2d 211 · 1989
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Act Up!/Portland v. Bagley (1992), Adams v. Metiva (1994)
47 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 · Tennessee v. Garner · Martinez v. California · United New York & New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Ass'n v. Halecki · Bellamy v. Bradley
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the legal question of immunity is completely dependent upon which view of the [disputed] facts is accepted by the jury.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any officer in the defendant's position, measured objectively, would have clearly understood that he was under an affirmative duty to have refrained from such conduct.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a court may not be able to make a determination if the exact character of the 'actions' that Anderson [v. Creighton] requires the court to consider is unknown.”
3 later decisions 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.