Vazquez v. Rossnagle’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Sharrar v. Felsing · Orsatti v. New Jersey State Police · Merkle v. Upper Dublin School District · Sherwood v. Mulvihill
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... once [the police officer] had established that there was sufficient probable cause to arrest [plaintiff], there was no need for additional investigations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kozel v. Kozel
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.