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← 2 FSUPP2D 1268 - Fowler v. Block

Fowler v. Block’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
January 2005
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1985

Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Malley v. Briggs · Siegert v. Gilley · Hunter v. Bryant

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “there is no reason why a check for wants and holds needs to occur after a person is released. As Plaintiff's counsel argued, those checks can occur at anytime between the original arrest and the case's ultimate disposition.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “in the face of [a] state court's `clearly established' release order, it was unreasonable for the [Sheriff] to do more than simply”
    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.