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Morgan v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis

920 F.3d 521 · 2019

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
April 2025
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

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

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Anderson v. Creighton · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois

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

  1. “clearly established constitutional right of which a reasonable person would have known.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “give government officials breathing room to make reasonable but mistaken judgments about open legal questions.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “a robust consensus of cases of persuasive authority”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.