Kane v. Barger’s Empirical Analysis
902 F.3d 185 · 2018
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2025
4 federal appellate ·
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. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Malley v. Briggs · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Hope v. Pelzer · Washington v. Glucksberg
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“given the egregiousness of [defendant's] violation of [plaintiff's] personal security and bodily integrity, the right here is so 'obvious' that it could be deemed clearly established even without materially similar cases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. E. D. v. Sharkey“[I]t need not be the case that the exact conduct has previously been held unlawful so long as the 'contours of the right' are sufficiently clear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. E. D. v. Sharkey
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.