Perry v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
2024
Citation profile
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Wolff v. McDonnell · Pearson v. Callahan · Malley v. Briggs · Erickson v. Pardus
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether there is a genuine issue of disputed fact that would allow a reasonable finder of fact to determine that the defendant violated the plaintiff's federal constitutional rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“We have discretion to bypass the first step [of the qualified immunity analysis] if we conclude that the right was not clearly established at the time of its alleged violation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bannon v. Godin · Segrain v. Duffy“whether the right that the plaintiff can supportably show was violated was clearly established at the time of the defendant's alleged violation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.