Cummings v. Dean

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that plaintiffs’ clearly established showing was deficient for failure to “identif[y] any case from the Supreme Court or this court finding a defendant liable under federal law in factually similar circumstances”
• noting that an unpublished opinion “provides little support for the notion that the law is clearly established”
• “Given that Plaintiffs bear the burden of presenting such a case to overcome qualified immunity, this failure proves fatal to their position.” (citation omitted)
• “Qualified immunity only shields an official in the exercise of his or her discretion.”
• “Qualified immunity only shields an official in the exercise of his or her discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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  N.D. Oklahoma· 2019-04-25· cited 1×
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Cites

69 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ashcroft v. Iqbal
  Supreme Court· 2009-05-18· cited 149,772×
• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Pearson v. Callahan
  Supreme Court· 2009-01-21· cited 13,928×
• Mitchell v. Forsyth
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-19· cited 8,858×
• Albright v. Oliver
  Supreme Court· 1994-01-24· cited 7,028×
• Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-19· cited 6,903×
• County of Sacramento v. Lewis
  Supreme Court· 1998-05-26· cited 6,212×
• Mullenix v. Luna
  Supreme Court· 2015-11-09· cited 3,438×
• Collins v. City of Harker Heights
  Supreme Court· 1992-02-26· cited 3,302×
• Reichle v. Howards
  Supreme Court· 2012-06-04· cited 2,745×
• Washington v. Glucksberg
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-26· cited 2,664×
• Davis v. Scherer
  Supreme Court· 1984-08-16· cited 2,605×
• Crawford-El v. Britton
  Supreme Court· 1998-05-04· cited 2,583×
• Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-18· cited 2,433×
• Plumhoff v. Rickard
  Supreme Court· 2014-05-27· cited 1,723×
• Bryson v. Gonzales
  Tenth Circuit· 2008-07-28· cited 909×
• Elder v. Holloway
  Supreme Court· 1994-02-23· cited 787×
• Brown v. Montoya
  Tenth Circuit· 2011-11-08· cited 782×
• Dodds v. Richardson
  Tenth Circuit· 2010-08-06· cited 746×
• Gene S. Jacobsen, and Cross-Appellee v. Deseret Book Company, a Utah Corporation Dean Hughes, And
  Tenth Circuit· 2002-04-19· cited 659×