Archuleta v. McShan’s Empirical Analysis
897 F.2d 495 · 1990
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 29 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Hall v. Bellmon (1991), Sutton II v. Utah State School for the Deaf and Blind 1-5 1-5 (1999)
32 federal appellate · 29 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 Graham v. Connor · City of Canton v. Harris · Daniels v. Williams · Roberts v. United States Jaycees · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp.
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] section 1983 claim must be based upon the violation of plaintiff's personal rights, and not the rights of someone else.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[R]ecklessness includes an element of deliberateness--a conscious acceptance of a known, serious risk.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ur conclusion that the officer did not act recklessly is particularly appropriate in light of the need to make 'allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second judgments--in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving.'”
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.