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884 F.2d 1057 · 1989

Citation profile

55
cited by 55 later decisions
3
states following
August 2004
most recently cited

38 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2004 · most notably Biodex Corporation v. Loredan Biomedical Inc (1991), Forbes v. Trigg (1992)

38 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions

470198919902000decided

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 · Anderson v. Creighton · Wolff v. McDonnell · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Daniels v. Williams

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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In deciding [the qualified immunity] issue, a court must consider the information upon which the official acted, although this is not to be confused with a review of the official's subjective intent.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Givens v. Jones · Smith v. Maloney
  2. “A fundamental tenet of due process is that to be sanctioned one must have received fair notice that one's allegedly violative conduct was prohibited.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Gaston v. Taylor
  3. “By failing to move for JNOV, the trial judge was denied the chance to correct any error by the jury.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Biodex Corporation v. Loredan Biomedical Inc

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.