McGee v. Bauer’s Empirical Analysis
956 F.2d 730 · 1992
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2019
14 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Fuentes v. Shevin · Hunter v. Bryant · City of St. Louis v. Praprotnik
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“right at issue must not be phrased too generally— qualified immunity would be a tenuous shield if a plaintiff could simply say that she has a general, yet clearly established, right to ‘due process.’ ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“What process is due under the Constitution is a legal question that the judge should resolve. The judge then should put to the jury any factual questions relating to the application of that standard.”
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.