Bolton v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
367 F.3d 5 · 2004
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Acosta v. Ames Department Stores, Inc. (2004), United States v. McGregor (2011)
16 federal appellate · 14 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 Terry v. Ohio · Ornelas v. United States · Whren v. United States · United States v. Sokolow · Illinois v. Wardlow
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'actual motive or thought process of the officer.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]o deference should be given to the fact-finder as to probable cause or reasonable suspicion where the raw facts are undisputed or settled and the only issue is one of law application.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is pointless to submit ... [a] probable cause question to the jury at all unless the facts are disputed.”
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.