Cronen v. Texas Department of Human Services’s Empirical Analysis
977 F.2d 934 · 1992
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably Regents of University of California v. Doe (1997), Atteberry v. Nocona General Hospital (2005)
14 federal appellate · 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 · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Quern v. Jordan
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An official acts within his discretionary authority when he performs non-ministerial acts within the boundaries of his official capacity.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.