Rindley v. Gallagher’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2014
1 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Are the official’s functions similar to those involved in the judicial process?; (2) Are the officials actions likely to result in damages lawsuits by disappointed participants?; and (3) Do sufficient safeguards exist to protect against unconstitutional conduct?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cosby v. Lee County
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.