Smith v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.3d 99 · 1999
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Escalera v. Lunn (2004), John Martinez v. County of Westmoreland
12 federal appellate · 8 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Dunaway v. New York · Behrens v. Pelletier · City of Los Angeles v. Heller
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]eterminations of evidentiary sufficiency at summary judgment are not immediately appealable . . . if what is at issue in the sufficiency determination is nothing more than whether the evidence could support a finding that particular conduct occurred. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“can be particularized as the right to be free from an arrest based on a warrant that would not have been issued if the officer seeking the warrant had disclosed to the issuing magistrate information within the officer's knowledge that negated probable cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Loria v. Gorman“then determine whether as a matter of law the corrected affidavit did or did not support probable cause.”
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.