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102 F.3d 190 · 1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 27 F. Supp. 2d 754 - N.W. Enterprises, Inc. v. City of Houston (1998), 10 F. Supp. 2d 736 - Clarendon America Insurance v. Bay, Inc. (1998)
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · California v. Hodari D. · Siegert v. Gilley · Owen v. City of Independence · United States v. Classic
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether a police officer is acting under color of law does not depend on his on-or-off-duty status at the time of the alleged violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. W.M.V.C. v. Barr“only when there is an actual controversy — that is, when both parties have submitted evidence of contradictory facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“threaten[ing] to use the authority conveyed to him by virtue of his status to arrest [the plaintiff].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. W.M.V.C. v. Barr
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.