Siegert v. Gilley’s Empirical Analysis
895 F.2d 797 · 1990
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2010 · most notably Siegert v. Gilley (1991), Crawford-El v. Britton (1998)
39 federal appellate · 12 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“constitute direct as opposed to merely circumstantial evidence of the intent.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]are allegations of improper purpose, like the bare allegations of malice rejected in Harlow, do not suffice to drag officials into the mire of discovery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Gilley's actions in writing the letter [would constitute] a violation of Siegert's constitutional rights.”
2 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.