Castellano v. Fragozo’s Empirical Analysis
352 F.3d 939 · 2003
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Manuel v. City of Joliet (2017), Gregory v. City of Louisville (2006)
58 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Graham v. Connor · United States v. Agurs · Parratt v. Taylor
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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he initiation of criminal charges without probable cause may set in force events that run afoul of explicit constitutional protection-the Fourth Amendment if the accused is seized and arrested, for example.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“freestanding constitutional right to be free from malicious prosecution,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not accrue until the prosecution ends in the plaintiff's favor.”
4 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.