John Martinez v. County of Westmoreland’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
22 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably 200 F. Supp. 2d 411 - Brogdon v. City of New Rochelle (2002), Polar International Brokerage Corp. v. Reeve (2000)
22 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Johnson v. Jones · Wilson v. Layne
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] law enforcement official has probable cause to arrest if he received his information from some person, normally the putative victim or eyewitness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“knowledge or reasonably trustworthy information sufficient to warrant a person of reasonable caution in the belief that an offense has been committed by the person to be arrested.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] police officer is not required to explore and eliminate every theoretically plausible claim of innocence before making an arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bornschein v. Herman
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.