Mueller v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
203 F.2d 797 · 1953
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1988 · most notably Draper v. United States (1959), Barbara A. Nesmith and Richard A. Nesmith v. H. D. Alford (1963)
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Screws v. United States · Smith v. Texas · Hill v. State of Texas · Worthington v. United States
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * [I]t is readily apparent that under the law of Missouri an officer charged with the duty of enforcing the law * * * is justified in making an arrest without a warrant, although no felony has actually been committed, but is suspected, and there is reasonable or probable grounds to suspect that the person arrested committed the crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * Clearly, it has long been the law in Missouri that facts and circumstances learned by an officer in the course of his official investigation of a criminal offense may constitute the basis for the necessary probable cause which will justify an arrest without a warrant. * # * »”
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.