McNeff v. Heider’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
December 1993
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person unlawfully arresting another for one offense cannot, when sued for false imprisonment, justify on the ground that the one arrested was guilty of some other offense, for which the arrest under the circumstances would have been legal or because reasonable grounds existed for an arrest for such other offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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