Mitchell v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
954 F.2d 187 · 1992
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Perkins v. Kansas Department of Corrections (1999), Pinder v. Johnson (1995)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right. This is not to say that an official action is protected by qualified immunity unless the very action in question has previously been held unlawful, ... but it is to say that in the light of preexisting law the unlawfulness must be apparent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the interests of accomplishing public goals and encouraging public service, government officials should not be under the burden of defending themselves against every claim raised by an aggrieved individual, but neither should they be given free rein and the power of a governing position to infract the rights of citizens.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Akers v. Caperton“We have previously held that the individual bringing suit against a public official bears the burden of clearly establishing the law allegedly violated.”); Clark v. Link, 855 F.2d 156 , 160-61 (4th Cir.1988) (noting that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henry v. Purnell
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.