Simmons v. Pryor’s Empirical Analysis
26 F.3d 650 · 1993
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably David Sherrod v. Darlene Lingle, R.n. (2000), Sheik-Abdi v. McClellan (1994)
16 federal appellate ·
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. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Malley v. Briggs · Schertz v. Waupaca County · Mahoney v. Kesery · Joseph L. Bailey v. Kevin C. Andrews
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonably well-trained officer in [his] position would have known that his affidavit failed to establish probable cause and that he should not have applied for the warrant”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he existence of probable cause for arrest is an absolute bar to a Section 1983 claim for unlawful arrest....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to prevail in an unlawful arrest action, the plaintiff must show lack of probable cause.”
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.