Bartlett v. Fisher’s Empirical Analysis
972 F.2d 911 · 1992
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably O'Connor v. Steeves (1993), Kincade v. City of Blue Springs (1995)
47 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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 · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for purposes of the Harlow qualified immunity standard.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonably competent officer would have concluded”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]ublic officials are entitled to qualified immunity when their 'conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.'”
2 later decisions 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.