Wiley v. City of Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
361 F.3d 994 · 2004
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Heck v. Humphrey · Albright v. Oliver · Newsome v. McCabe · Reed v. City of Chicago · Wilkins v. May
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f [the plaintiff's] attack on his arrest would challenge the only evidence supporting a potential conviction, then his claim did not begin to accrue until the charges were dismissed....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Heck may in fact occasionally bar a civil rights claim premised on a false or wrongful arrest.”
1 later decision 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.