Valiente v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
966 F.2d 21 · 1992
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2023
17 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois · Roque-Rodriguez v. Lema Moya
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an asserted right not to stand trial is lost no less by a court’s refusal to entertain a pre-trial immunity claim as by an erroneous denial of it on the merits,”
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.