Opinion

SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al.

533 U.S. 194
121 S. Ct. 2151
150 L. Ed. 2d 272
2001 U.S. LEXIS 4664

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Filed: Jun 18, 2001
Status: Published
Author: Souter
On the bench: Kennedy, Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, Thomas, Sou-Ter, Ginsburg, Stevens, Breyer, Souter
Cited by: 13 cases

Overruled by Pearson v. Callahan, 555 U.S. 223 (2009)

outlining a two-pronged qualified immunity analysis, the second prong of which requires that a right be clearly established for an official to be stripped of qualified immunity protection

How later courts described this case

outlining a two-pronged qualified immunity analysis, the second prong of which requires that a right be clearly established for an official to be stripped of qualified immunity protection

Written by the judges who cited it.

Later courts went against this

Overruled by Pearson v. Callahan, 555 U.S. 223 (2009)
Listed in the Constitution Annotated's table of Supreme Court decisions overruled by subsequent decision (entry 229, expressly overruled).
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The opinion

Justice Souter,

concurring in part and dissenting in part.

I join Parts I and II of the Court’s opinion, but would remand the case for application of the qualified immunity standard.

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