Palmer v. Sanderson’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.3d 1433 · 1993
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Payne v. Pauley (2003), Cortez v. McCauley (2007)
65 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Tennessee v. Garner
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the “right” they allegedly violated was not “clearly established” at the time of the violation, or (2) if a reasonable [official] would have thought that the defendants’ actions were constitutional.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ahonen v. Varela · Trevino v. Gates“the fact that excessive force claims were occasionally analyzed under the due process clause before 1989 does not mean that the Fourth Amendment's application to these situations was not clearly established”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. P.B., on Her Own Behalf and on Behalf of N.B., a Minor S.G., on Her Own Behalf and on Behalf of L.G., a Minor C.D., on Her Own Behalf and on Behalf of D.D. v. Alfred Koch, Principal of Preston High School, and Scott Beckstead Mary Jo Roberts George Wilcox Orson Bowler · Pb Nb Sg Lg Cd Dd v. Koch“impose liability vicariously on [employers or supervisors] solely on the basis of the existence of an employer-employee relationship with atortfeasor.”
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.