Vaughan v. Ricketts’s Empirical Analysis
950 F.2d 1464 · 1991
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Act Up!/Portland v. Bagley (1992), Zhang v. American Gem Seafoods, Inc. (2003)
29 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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))
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Bell v. Wolfish · Malley v. Briggs · Houston v. Lack · Johnson v. Mississippi
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[q]ualified immunity is available to government officials if they could reasonably have thought that their actions were lawful in light of the clearly established law and the information they possessed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be conducted with reasonable cause and in a reasonable manner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here the court had no record of when the appellant delivered the notice to prison authorities the proper course was to remand to the district court for a determination of whether the notice of appeal was delivered to prison authorities on time”
1 later decision 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.