Madiwale v. Savaiko’s Empirical Analysis
117 F.3d 1321 · 1997
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Holloman ex rel. Holloman v. Harland (2004), Jones v. Cannon (1999)
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 48 U.S.C. § 1983
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Franks v. Delaware · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Behrens v. Pelletier
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] warrant affidavit violates the Fourth Amendment when it contains omissions made intentionally or with a reckless disregard for the accuracy of the affidavit ... if inclusion of the omitted facts would have prevented a finding of probable cause.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Cannon · Wilson v. Strong“[I]n the light of pre-existing law, the unlawfulness must be apparent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Cannon · Wilson v. Strong
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.