Porterfield v. Lott’s Empirical Analysis
156 F.3d 563 · 1998
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Suarez Corporation Industries v. Darrell V. Mcgraw, Jr. (2000), Rogers v. Pendleton (2001)
14 federal appellate · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Brinegar v. United States · Heck v. Humphrey · Malley v. Briggs
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]urrounding circumstances, even circumstances that appear innocent when considered alone, may provide a basis for finding probable cause.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`determine whether that right was clearly established at the time of the alleged violation.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shield[ ] [them] from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.