Auriemma v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
910 F.2d 1449 · 1990
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Lindh v. Murphy (1996), Saulpaugh v. Monroe Community Hospital (1993)
72 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Gjovernment officials performing discretionary functions, generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“violates clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
3 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.