Bresciani v. Haragan’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2025
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Trinity Broadcasting of Denver, Inc. v. City of Westminster · Fogg v. MacAluso · Woodsmall v. Regional Transportation District · Swieckowski Ex Rel. Swieckowski v. City of Fort Collins · Regional Transportation District v. Lopez
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to shield public entities and employees from being forced to trial or exposed to the other burdens of extended litigation, when the viability of the proceedings is dependent on the resolution of an essentially legal question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“are separate from those determinative of Hability and can be resolved early in the litigation process, without significant discovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.