Doran v. Eckold’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.3d 958 · 2005
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Ehlers v. City of Rapid City (2017), Wilson v. Northcutt (2006)
16 federal appellate · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 3109 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Baker v. McCollan · United States v. Hensley · Florida v. JL · Tristani v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc. · Wilson v. Arkansas
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“settled principle that law enforcement officers may rely on information provided by others in the law enforcement community, so long as the reliance is reasonable”
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.