Dixon v. Lowery’s Empirical Analysis
302 F.3d 857 · 2002
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2021
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · City of Canton v. Harris · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · Fuentes v. Shevin · Duncan v. Walker
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a seizure carried out without judicial authorization is per se unreasonable unless it falls within a well-defined exception ....” Id. at 862-63. Rather, the officers defended their action by arguing Dixon's continuing property interest was insufficient to support a constitutional violation. Id. at 863. The court found that argument fell short. Id. at 864. Citing Judge Loken’s dissent in Audio Odyssey, the court reasoned,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even if a claim to continued possession is in dispute, that possessory interest is still constitutionally protected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“under conditional sales contracts that entitled them to possession and use of the chattels before transfer of title”
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.