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Halley v. Huckaby’s Empirical Analysis

902 F.3d 1136 · 2018

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
April 2025
most recently cited

5 federal appellate ·

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Oklahoma Eastern District Court)

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · Malley v. Briggs · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Rochin v. People of California

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[g]eneral statements of the law can clearly establish a right for qualified immunity purposes if they apply with obvious clarity to the specific conduct in question.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “A clearly established right is one that is sufficiently clear that every reasonable official would have understood that what he is doing violates that right.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “A Supreme Court or Tenth Circuit decision on point or the weight of authority from other courts can clearly establish a right,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.