Irving Eugene Ney v. State of California, Lawrence F. Pickett, Keith C. Sorenson’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.2d 1285 · 1971
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1999 · most notably Allen v. McCurry (1980), Ellis v. Dyson (1975)
47 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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
Relies on Escobedo v. Illinois · Pierson v. Ray · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Russell M. Smith v. John J. Cremins, Jr., John F. Mahon, Jr. · Lewis v. Brautigam
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . if a successful state prosecution, based upon the use of information obtained by violating the defendant’s constitutional rights, could bar a civil rights action against the police for violating his rights, either by analogy to the law of malicious prosecution or on theories of res judicata or estoppel by judgment, the Civil Rights Act would, in many cases, be a dead letter. . . . ””
2 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.