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957 F.2d 339 · 1992

Citation profile

59
cited by 59 later decisions
1
states following
November 2019
most recently cited

35 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably Curley v. Klem (2002), Gossmeyer v. McDonald (1997)

35 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

420199220002010decided

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 · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · Davis v. Scherer

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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “whether the law was clear in relation to the specific facts confronting the public official when he or she acted.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 174 F. Supp. 2d 782 - Hosty v. Governors State University · Biddle v. Martin
  2. “Sua sponte dismissals for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted are permitted, provided a sufficient basis for the court's action is apparent from the plaintiff's pleading.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Donald Mark Garringer v. Deborah J. Daniels and Donald Lundberg
  3. “If there are issues of disputed fact upon which the question of immunity turns, ... the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants was not proper.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Burger v. Rattigan

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.