Bill R. Snodderly v. RUFF Drug Enforcement Task Force’s Empirical Analysis

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14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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

1. “a suit for damages attributable to an allegedly unreasonable search may lie even if the challenged search produced evidence that was introduced in a state criminal trial resulting in the § 1983 plaintiff's still-outstanding conviction”). 6 . See also Williams, Elizabeth, What Constitutes Fraudulent Concealment, 18 Ind. Law. Encycl. Limitation of Actions § 46 (quoting the same standard). Williams's article provides the following illustration of fraudulent concealment:”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 256 F. Supp. 2d 865 - Alexander v. City of South Bend

2. “[T]he State’s Attorney, not the police, prosecutes a criminal action. It is conceivable that a wrongful arrest could be the first step towards a malicious prosecution. However, the chain of causation is broken by an indictment, absent an allegation of pressure or influence exerted by the police officers, or knowing misstatements by the officers to the prosecutor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Colbert v. City of Chicago

3. “the chain of causation [from the arrest to the conviction] is broken by an indictment, absent an allegation of pressure or influence exerted by the police officers, or knowing misstatements by the officers to the prosecutor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 319 F. Supp. 3d 1004 - Rivera v. Guevara