Ripson v. Alles’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 805 · 1994
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Manzano v. South Dakota Department of Social Services (1995), Boyd v. Knox (1995)
28 federal appellate · 2 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 Anderson v. Creighton · Siegert v. Gilley · Hunter v. Bryant · Jones v. City of Chicago · Clay v. Conlee
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The supervisor must know about the conduct and facilitate it, approve it, condone it, or turn a blind eye for fear of what [he or she] might see.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Probable cause existed in the present case if, at the moment [the officers] arrested [Womack], the facts and circumstances within [the officers'] knowledge and of which [they] had reasonably trustworthy information were sufficient to warrant a prudent person in believing [Womack committed the charged crimes].”
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.