Akers v. Caperton’s Empirical Analysis
998 F.2d 220 · 1993
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Frank M. Dimeglio v. J. Robert Haines (1995), Pinder v. Johnson (1995)
18 federal appellate · 1 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. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Elrod v. Burns
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Branti , the Supreme Court stated that "the ultimate inquiry is not whether the label `policymaker' or `confidential' fits a particular position; rather the question is whether the hiring authority can demonstrate that party affiliation is an appropriate requirement for the effective performance of the public office involved."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known. Harloiv, supra, at 818, 102 S.Ct. at 2738 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The doctrine of qualified immunity attempts to reconcile two potentially conflicting principles: the need to deter government officials from violating an individual's federal civil rights and the need for government officials to act decisively without undue fear of judicial second guessing.”
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.