Fuller v. Vines’s Empirical Analysis
36 F.3d 65 · 1994
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Maldonado v. Fontanes (2009), Robinson v. Solano County (2002)
20 federal appellate · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Jacobsen · Soldal v. Cook County · Oklahoma v. New Mexico · Jones v. Union Pacific Railroad
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he killing of the [plaintiff's] dog is a destruction recognized as a seizure under the Fourth Amendment”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is some meaningful interference with an individual's possessory interests in that property.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“obviously ... `seized' within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment”
3 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.