Chatman v. Slagle’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Bloch v. Ribar (1998), Voyticky v. Village of Timberlake (2005)
6 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Heck v. Humphrey · Chambers v. Maroney · Gerstein v. Pugh · Preiser v. Rodriguez
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] suit for damages attributable to an allegedly unreasonable search may lie even if the challenged search produced evidence that was introduced in a state criminal trial resulting in the S 1983 plaintiff's still-outstanding conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dean Deboer“'unless it manifests plain injustice, or is so grossly excessive as to be clearly erroneous.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“intimidation, marital problems, weight loss, loss of sleep, shock, or humiliation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bloch v. Ribar
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.