Jones v. Wilhelm’s Empirical Analysis
425 F.3d 455 · 2005
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Sallenger ex rel. Estate of Sallenger v. Oakes (2007), United States v. Harris (2006)
20 federal appellate · 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Illinois v. Gates · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · United States v. Leon
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether a defendant's alleged actions violated a clearly established right, courts may properly take into account any information the defendant ought reasonably to have obtained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) deprived of a right secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, and (2) the deprivation was visited upon [her] by a person or persons acting under color of state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Via v. Dcp“from applying his earlier surveillance and subsequent deductions to resolve the warrant's ambiguity rather than presenting those observations to a magistrate for determination.”
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.