Walden v. Carmack’s Empirical Analysis
156 F.3d 861 · 1998
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 15 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Galen v. County of Los Angeles (2007), Larry Phillips v. Cathy Collings (2001)
42 federal appellate · 15 district · 1 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))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Illinois v. Gates · Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be read with common sense and not in a grudging, hyper technical fashion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In resolving a case in which the defense of qualified immunity has been raised, this Court must determine whether the appellees asserted a violation of a federal right, whether that right was clearly established, and whether a reasonable official in [the defendant's] position would have known that [her] conduct violated that right.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When an affidavit contains information provided by a confidential informant, a key issue that must be addressed is the reliability of that informant. Information may be sufficiently reliable to support a probable cause determination if the person providing the information has a track record of supplying reliable information, or if it is corroborated by independent evidence. If the information provided by the informant is shown to be rebable because of independent corroboration, then it is a permissible inference that the informant is reliable and that therefore other information that the informant provides, though uncorroborated, is also reliable.”
1 later decision 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.