Blissett v. Coughlin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding the defendants waived qualified immunity defense by “never articulat[ing] a qualified immunity defense distinct from their contention—the heart of their defense throughout these proceedings—that no constitutional violation occurred.”
• affirming that party waived qualified immunity defense at trial where the party \never articulated a qualified immunity defense distinct from their contention-the heart of their defense throughout these proceedings-that no constitutional violation occurred.\
• affirming a compensatory damages award to the plaintiff whom prison guards struck with a baton, punched, and slapped, causing him to fall unconscious
• \Appellants never articulated a qualified immunity defense distinct from their contention — the heart of their defense throughout these proceedings — that no constitutional violation occurred.\
• “Where summary judgment is inappropriate, ... the defense of qualified immunity may be presented to the jury or may be decided by the court in a motion for judgment as a matter of law.”
• where defendants raised qualified immunity in their answer but qualified immunity was not the subject of any pretrial motions, discovery, or pretrial discussions with the court, the defense was waived

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

57 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Darnell v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2017-02-21· cited 1,487×
• Zellner v. Summerlin
  Second Circuit· 2007-07-20· cited 453×
• Harris v. Miller
  Second Circuit· 2016-03-15· cited 321×
• Kerman v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2004-06-28· cited 237×
• Zeno v. Pine Plains Central School District
  Second Circuit· 2012-12-03· cited 183×
• Stephenson v. Doe
  Second Circuit· 2003-06-13· cited 183×
• Mathie v. Fries
  Second Circuit· 1997-07-31· cited 173×
• Jabbar v. Fischer
  Second Circuit· 2012-06-21· cited 152×
• Patricia McCardle Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. Jonathan Haddad, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant
  Second Circuit· 1997-11-21· cited 140×
• Quinn v. Nassau County Police Department
  E.D. New York· 1999-06-28· cited 132×
• Dancy v. McGinley
  Second Circuit· 2016-12-07· cited 129×
• Unnamed case
  First Circuit· 1995-12-13· cited 118×
• Stonewall Insurance v. Asbestos Claims Management Corp.
  Second Circuit· 1995-12-13· cited 82×
• Brown v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2017-07-05· cited 79×
• Shechter v. Comptroller of City of New York
  Second Circuit· 1996-03-21· cited 68×
• Trammell v. Keane
  Second Circuit· 2003-08-01· cited 67×
• DiSorbo v. Hoy
  Second Circuit· 2003-08-29· cited 65×
• Liberian Community Association v. Lamont
  Second Circuit· 2020-08-14· cited 64×
• Heisler v. Kralik
  S.D. New York· 1997-10-29· cited 40×
• Shabazz v. Cole
  D. Massachusetts· 1999-06-25· cited 39×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Anderson v. Creighton
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-25· cited 12,768×
• Rhodes v. Chapman
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-15· cited 6,761×
• Karen SORLUCCO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, Defendant-Appellee
  Second Circuit· 1992-07-28· cited 349×
• Samuel Simblest v. Joseph Maynard
  Second Circuit· 1970-05-12· cited 270×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 99,479 Samuel Mallis and Franklyn B. Kupferman, Cross-Appellants v. Bankers Trust Company, Cross-Appellee
  Second Circuit· 1983-09-01· cited 229×
• Oliveira v. Mayer
  Second Circuit· 1994-04-28· cited 219×
• Thomas Zarcone v. William M. Perry, James Windsor, Robert J. Anderson and Patrick Giambalvo
  Second Circuit· 1978-03-03· cited 151×
• McCray v. Burrell
  Fourth Circuit· 1975-04-10· cited 121×
• Fiacco v. City Of Rensselaer
  Second Circuit· 1986-02-11· cited 118×
• Vennes v. An Unknown Number of Unidentified Agents
  Supreme Court· 1995-01-09· cited 110×
• James Dunlap-Mcculler v. The Riese Organization Mannu Sohi Robert Gladstone Gary Chielmewski
  Second Circuit· 1992-11-25· cited 103×
• Ismail v. Cohen
  Second Circuit· 1990-03-27· cited 92×
• Unnamed case
  Fourth Circuit· 1990-10-15· cited 82×
• Bobby Maxwell (Ahmid Latfee Jamal Ali) v. Thomas K. Mason
  Eighth Circuit· 1981-12-23· cited 77×
• Burrell v. McCray
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-14· cited 63×
• Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Elizabethtown, Inc. v. Coca-Cola Co.
  Supreme Court· 1993-10-04· cited 54×
• Hughes v. Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Of The City Of New York, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1988-06-15· cited 48×
• Martell v. Boardwalk Enterprises, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1984-11-13· cited 27×