1 Conn. App. 709 - State v. Privitera’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably State v. Reynolds (2003), State v. Bunkley (1987)
5 district · 65 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Pointer v. Texas · Douglas v. Alabama · Greene v. McElroy · Bullock v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hat the question of whether an arrest is legal or illegal (i.e. whether there is probable cause therefor) is usually a very difficult factual question; that the prior rule [allowing the use of force to resist an illegal arrest] invites violence; and that it is better social policy to require the arrestee to submit and challenge the arrest in court, rather than to permit him to use force at the place of arrest subject to a later judicial determination of the legality of the arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The test is whether the agent is acting within that compass or is engaging in a personal frolic of his own. It cannot be said that an agent who has made an arrest loses his official capacity if the arrest is subsequently adjudged to be unlawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Phillips“acting within the scope of what [he] is employed to do,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Phillips
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.