Donovan v. Thames’s Empirical Analysis
105 F.3d 291 · 1997
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Stemler v. City of Florence (1997), DLX, Inc. v. Kentucky (2004)
26 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Brinegar v. United States · Heck v. Humphrey · Allen v. McCurry · Beck v. State of Ohio · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clearly established that an arrest without probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the facts and circumstances within [the officer's] knowledge and of which [the officer] had reasonably trustworthy information were sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing that the [suspect] had committed or was committing an offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The general rule is that a judgment in a former action operates as an estoppel only as to matters which were necessarily involved and determined in the former action, and is not conclusive as to matters which were immaterial or unessential to the determination of the prior action or which were not necessary to uphold the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.