Hall v. Shipley’s Empirical Analysis
932 F.2d 1147 · 1991
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Dickerson v. Mcclellan (1996), Lavado v. Keohane (1993)
29 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Monroe v. Pape · Johnson 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[G]overnment 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 · from the majority“could reasonably have been thought consistent with the rights they are alleged to have violated.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n the Sixth Circuit ... it is 'clearly established' law that 'the fourth amendment forbids the unannounced, forcible entry of a dwelling in the absence of exigent circumstances.'”
2 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.