30 Cited authorities

  1. Saucier v. Katz

    533 U.S. 194 (2001)   Cited 20,165 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Holding when a defendant seeks qualified immunity, "a ruling on that issue should be made early in the proceedings so that the costs and expenses of trial are avoided where the defense is dispositive."
  2. Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd

    563 U.S. 731 (2011)   Cited 8,818 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, to be clearly established, "existing precedent must have placed the statutory or constitutional question beyond debate"
  3. Sandin v. Conner

    515 U.S. 472 (1995)   Cited 18,532 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Holding that liberty interests requiring procedural due process are limited to freedom from restraints that impose "atypical and significant hardship" as compared to ordinary prison life
  4. Mullenix v. Luna

    577 U.S. 7 (2015)   Cited 3,928 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding our court erred in our extrapolation of Garner to new facts
  5. Hudson v. Palmer

    468 U.S. 517 (1984)   Cited 12,271 times   13 Legal Analyses
    Holding that prisoners have no reasonable expectation of privacy
  6. Turner v. Safley

    482 U.S. 78 (1987)   Cited 10,073 times   11 Legal Analyses
    Holding a regulation unconstitutional after noting that the prison "pointed to nothing in the record suggesting" the existence of a rational connection between the regulation and the asserted government interest and that "[c]ommon sense likewise suggests that there is no [such] connection"
  7. Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents

    403 U.S. 388 (1971)   Cited 25,652 times   27 Legal Analyses
    Holding that there is an implied cause of action for money damages against federal officials for violations of the Fourth Amendment
  8. Wolff v. McDonnell

    418 U.S. 539 (1974)   Cited 19,155 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that declaratory judgment as a predicate to a damages award would not be barred, but that a civil rights claim that would affect the duration of incarceration is foreclosed by Preiser
  9. Malley v. Briggs

    475 U.S. 335 (1986)   Cited 9,156 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a reasonably well-trained officer who would have known that his affidavit failed to establish probable cause and that he shouldn't have applied for a warrant violates an arrestee's Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable seizures and does not enjoy qualified immunity when he arrests someone based on the warrant he nonetheless procured from a judicial officer
  10. Hunter v. Bryant

    502 U.S. 224 (1991)   Cited 4,860 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that probable cause is assessed in relation to the facts possessed by the arresting officer at the time he made the warrantless arrest