Cannon v. Macon County’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.3d 1558 · 1993
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Lee v. City of Los Angeles (2001), Ortega v. Christian (1996)
34 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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 Conley v. Gibson · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“constitutional right to be free from continued detention after it was or should have been known that the detainee was entitled to release”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“after the lapse of a certain amount of time”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he Baker decision has not been read to preclude all § 1983 claims based on false imprisonment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.