Weise v. Casper

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “a district court cannot avoid ruling on the merits of a qualified immunity defense when it can resolve the purely legal question of whether a defendant’s conduct, as alleged by plaintiff, violates clearly established law”
• the qualified immunity analysis “can only proceed after the court determines that a defendant is entitled to assert qualified immunity in the first instance”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Thomas v. Durastanti
  Tenth Circuit· 2010-06-04· cited 205×
• Schwartz v. Booker
  Tenth Circuit· 2012-12-19· cited 127×
• Weise v. Casper
  Tenth Circuit· 2010-01-27· cited 96×
• Big Cats of Serenity Springs, Inc. v. Rhodes
  Tenth Circuit· 2016-12-12· cited 61×
• Genesee County Employees' Retirement System v. Thornburg Mortgage Securities Trust
  D. New Mexico· 2011-11-12· cited 61×
• Utah Animal Rights Coalition v. Salt Lake County
  Tenth Circuit· 2009-06-01· cited 46×
• Glover v. Mabrey
  Tenth Circuit· 2010-06-28· cited 31×
• Williams v. Borrego
  Tenth Circuit· 2021-07-21· cited 29×
• Estate of Madison Jody Jensen v. Clyde
  Tenth Circuit· 2021-03-02· cited 26×
• Auraria Student Housing at Regency, LLC v. Campus Village Apartments, LLC
  Tenth Circuit· 2013-01-04· cited 7×
• Burke v. Glanz
  N.D. Oklahoma· 2017-11-09· cited 6×
• Powell v. Miller
  Tenth Circuit· 2017-03-07· cited 5×
• Vivos Therapeutics. v. Ortho-Tain
  Tenth Circuit· 2025-07-08· cited 3×
• Prospect Dev. Co. v. Holland & Knight, LLP
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2018-07-26· cited 2×
• In Re Appleberry
  Tenth Circuit· 2008-09-11· cited 1×

Cites

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

• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Anderson v. Creighton
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-25· cited 12,768×
• Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-20· cited 10,863×
• Mitchell v. Forsyth
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-19· cited 8,858×
• Butz v. Economou
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-29· cited 3,397×
• Johnson v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-12· cited 2,857×
• Siegert v. Gilley
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-23· cited 2,725×
• Bender v. Williamsport Area School District
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-19· cited 2,256×
• Behrens v. Pelletier
  Supreme Court· 1996-02-21· cited 2,084×
• Wyatt v. Cole
  Supreme Court· 1992-05-18· cited 921×
• Iqbal v. Hasty
  Second Circuit· 2007-06-18· cited 613×
• Tower v. Glover
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 546×
• Medina v. Cram
  Tenth Circuit· 2001-06-12· cited 519×
• Richardson v. McKnight
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-23· cited 446×
• Garrett v. Stratman
  Tenth Circuit· 2001-06-20· cited 321×
• Locurto v. Safir
  Second Circuit· 2001-08-27· cited 308×
• Joseph H. Levenstein v. Bernard Salafsky, Patricia A. Gill, and David C. Broski, in Their Individual Capacities
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-12-16· cited 284×
• McVey v. Stacy
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-09-10· cited 201×
• Walker v. City of Orem
  Tenth Circuit· 2006-06-27· cited 145×
• Prager v. LaFaver
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-06-15· cited 141×