Kinney v. Weaver

How courts have described this case

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

• allowing review of purely legal questions and requiring that plaintiffs allegations be taken as true for purposes of summary judgment on qualified immunity
• “We do not let the governmental defendant prevail, on summary judgment, by relying on interests that, viewing the record in the non-movant’s favor, are not reasonably threatened in the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gobert v. Caldwell
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-08-29· cited 784×
• Morgan v. Swanson
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-09-27· cited 606×
• Natasha Whitley v. John Hanna
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-08-08· cited 568×
• Brown v. Callahan
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-10-07· cited 448×
• Estate of Davis Ex Rel. McCully v. City of North Richland Hills
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-04-11· cited 378×
• Freeman v. Gore
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-04-03· cited 360×
• Flores v. City of Palacios
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-08-10· cited 356×
• Lytle v. Bexar County, Tex.
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-02-25· cited 299×
• Easter v. Powell
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-10-10· cited 297×
• McGreevy v. Stroup
  Third Circuit· 2005-06-28· cited 280×
• Tarver v. City of Edna
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-05-25· cited 267×
• Derrick Newman v. James Guedry
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-12-21· cited 247×
• George v. Morris
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-07-30· cited 237×
• Davis v. McKinney
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-02-21· cited 201×
• Reynaldo Ramirez v. Jim Wells County, Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-05-15· cited 195×
• Montoya v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-08-09· cited 172×
• Roger Trent v. Steven Wade
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-01-29· cited 170×
• Amanda Culbertson v. Pat Lykos
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-06-22· cited 169×
• Patricia Littrell, Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Daniel Jake Franklin, in His Official and Individual Capacities, Appellee/cross-Appellant
  Eighth Circuit· 2004-11-02· cited 161×
• Atteberry v. Nocona General Hospital
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-11-03· cited 154×

Cites

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

• Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of Catrett
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 119,442×
• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 14,284×
• Anderson v. Creighton
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-25· cited 12,768×
• Mitchell v. Forsyth
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-19· cited 8,858×
• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Malley v. Briggs
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-05· cited 6,748×
• County of Sacramento v. Lewis
  Supreme Court· 1998-05-26· cited 6,212×
• Whitley v. Albers
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-04· cited 6,155×
• Pickering v. Board of Ed. of Township High School Dist. 205, Will Cty.
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 6,021×
• Connick Ex Rel. Parish of Orleans v. Myers
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-20· cited 5,562×
• Perry v. Sindermann
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,238×
• Hope v. Pelzer
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-27· cited 4,957×
• Paul v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1976-05-19· cited 4,836×
• Washington v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-07· cited 3,450×
• Butz v. Economou
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-29· cited 3,397×
• Zinermon v. Burch
  Supreme Court· 1990-02-27· cited 3,290×
• Hunter v. Bryant
  Supreme Court· 1991-12-16· cited 3,271×
• Griffin v. Breckenridge
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-07· cited 3,211×
• Johnson v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-12· cited 2,857×