Johnson v. Schneiderheinz’s Empirical Analysis
102 F.3d 340 · 1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2020
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs · Hunter v. Bryant
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That the [officer] may have been mistaken is not enough to find a violation of [plaintiff's] constitutional rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the negative polygraph exam results were not the only undisputed facts upon which probable cause could rest”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the issue for immunity purposes is not probable cause in fact but arguable probable cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baldridge v. Cordes
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.