Grant’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Robert Cunningham (2000), Daniel Leveto (2001)
13 district · 2 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is not sufficient that the right at issue be clearly estabhshed as a general matter. Rather, the question is whether a reasonable public official would know that his or her specific conduct violated clearly estabhshed rights.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]rucial to the resolution of any assertion of qualified immunity is a careful examination of the record (preferably by the district court) to establish, for purposes of summary judgment, a detailed factual description of the actions of each individual defendant (viewed in a light most favorable to the plaintiff).... We think that the district court ... is in a far better position than we are to review the record for evidence as to the specific conduct of each of the ... Defendants.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]rucial to the resolution of [the] assertion of qualified immunity is a careful examination of the record . . . to establish . . . a detailed factual description of the actions of each individual defendant (viewed in a light most favorable to the plaintiff).”
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.