Ringuette v. City of Fall River’s Empirical Analysis
146 F.3d 1 · 1998
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 32 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Camilo-Robles v. Hoyos (1998), William Brady and Theresa Brady v. Maryann Dill et al. (1999)
15 federal appellate · 32 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Maine District Court)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Malley v. Briggs · United States v. Lanier · Young v. Harper
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ringuette was not a citizen demanding to be released from confinement. He was, from all appearances, still drunk or otherwise incapacitated, and — according to the district court findings — he rebuffed two offers to release him, one made shortly before the end of the twelve-hour period and one made not long thereafter. Nor did he later ask to leave. The notion that police officers should simply have put Ringuette out on the street against his will in his then-apparent condition is implausible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Something of a ‘black hole’ exists in the law as to how to resolve factual disputes pertaining to qualified immunity when they cannot be resolved on summary judgment prior to trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jennings v. Jones
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.