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Maust v. Headley’s Empirical Analysis

959 F.2d 644 · 1992

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
December 2006
most recently cited

12 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Davis v. Scherer · Olim v. Wakinekona · Vitek v. Jones · Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund v. Presti

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

  1. “if there are issues of disputed fact upon which the question of immunity turns, ... the case must proceed to trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[S]tate-created procedural rights do not, standing alone, constitute protected liberty interests.”
    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.