Dahl v. Holley’s Empirical Analysis
312 F.3d 1228 · 2002
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably Holloman ex rel. Holloman v. Harland (2004), Draper v. Reynolds (2004)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
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 Franks v. Delaware · Brinegar v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Draper v. United States
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hatever the officers' motivation ... the existence of probable cause to arrest [the plaintiff] defeats [a] First Amendment claim”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not required to sift through conflicting evidence or resolve issues of credibility, so long as the totality of the circumstances present a sufficient basis for believing that an offense has been committed. Nor does probable cause require certainty on the part of the police.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“at the moment the arrest was made, 'the facts and circumstances within [the officers'] knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information were sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing’ that [the suspect] had committed or was committing an offense”
2 later decisions 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.