Floyd v. Laws’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 1390 · 1991
Citation profile
134 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 240 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Dawes v. Walker (2001), Smith v. Jackson (1996)
134 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Carey v. Piphus · Santoni v. United States
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 240 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appeal from a denial of a Rule 60(b) motion brings up only the denial of the motion for review, not the merits of the underlying judgment.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[I]f the district court has correctly found that the jury’s answer to a question that was supposed tó terminate further inquiry is clear and disposes of the legal issues, on review we must ignore the jury’s necessarily conflicting answers to any other questions.’ ”) (quoting White v. Grinfas, 809 F.2d 1157 , 1161 (5th Cir.1987) (emphasis omitted)); Kavanaugh v. Greenlee Tool Co., 944 F.2d 7 , 10-11 (1st Cir.1991) (”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“government officials performing discretionary functions ... 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.”
3 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.