Children v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Berg v. Norand Corp. (1999), Kraft v. City of Bettendorf (1984)
6 federal appellate · 10 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
Relies on Brinegar v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Draper v. United States · Henry v. United States · Keeble 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A false arrest case involving the issue of probable cause turns on what the officer knew at the time of arrest, not what he learned later.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.