Williams v. Greifinger’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.3d 699 · 1996
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Perkins v. Kansas Department of Corrections (1999), Ford v. McGinnis (2003)
7 federal appellate · 2 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 · Easter House v. United States · Department of Revenue of Montana v. Ranch · Mansell v. Mansell
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the court finds that the asserted rights were not clearly established, or if the evidence is such that, even when it is viewed in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs and with all permissible inferences drawn in their favor, no rational jury could fail to conclude that it was objectively reasonable for the defendants to believe that they were acting in a fashion that did not violate a clearly established right.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] court need not have passed on the identical course of conduct in order for its illegality to be 'clearly established.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) whether the right in question was defined with “reasonable specificity,” (2) whether the decisional law of the Supreme Court and the applicable circuit court support the existence of the right in question, and (3) whether under preexisting law a reasonable defendant official would have understood that his or her acts were unlawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.