Collins v. Marina-Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 474 · 1990
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 28 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Zahra v. Town of Southold (1995), Martinez v. Colon (1995)
26 federal appellate · 28 district · 1 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Anderson v. Creighton · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Because qualified immunity does not address the substantive viability of [the asserted] claim, but rather the objective reasonableness of a defendant’s actions, a plaintiff who is entitled to prevail on the merits is not necessarily entitled to prevail on the issue of qualified immunity-’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is settled beyond peradventure that issues mentioned in a perfunctory manner, unaccompanied by some effort at developed argumentation, are deemed waived.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“had no prior inkling of what type of information would be requested of him. No specification of charges was furnished. He had no documents available to him. His interview lasted for 30 minutes. He was not given a chance to appear again. The ax fell six days later. The university’s “evidence” against [the professor] was not seasonably disclosed to him; indeed, he never saw the Committee’s report until after he started suit.”
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.