Camarillo v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
998 F.2d 638 · 1993
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Grossman v. City of Portland (1994), Sorrels v. McKee (2002)
51 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 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 · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Turner v. Safley · Gomez v. Toledo
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Qualified immunity protects government officials performing discretionary functions from liability for civil damages, unless the official's conduct violates clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the contours of the right [are] sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the absence of a showing of prejudice, however, an affirmative defense may be raised for the first time at summary judgment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meehan v. East Lyme Bd. of Educ. · William T. Brady James Cardwell Dar-Kel Corporation v. Chester P. Brown, and Lorna Brown De Mena Eric Brown Castelazo Nelly Lozano De Brown, and Maria De Los Angeles Castelazo De Brown, Defendant-Counter-Claimant/appellant v. Hotel Las Arenas, S.A. De C v. Counter-Defendant/appellee. William T. Brady James Cardwell Del-Kel Corporation v. Chester P. Brown, Defendant/cross-Claimant/appellant v. Hotel Las Arenas, S.A. De C v. Cross-Defendant/appellee
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.