Jones ex rel. Jones v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
45 F.3d 178 · 1995
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Lennon v. Miller (1995), Kelley v. Myler (1998)
26 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Illinois v. Gates · Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the facts and circumstances within [his] knowledge and of which [he has] reasonably trustworthy information [are] sufficient to warrant a prudent [person] in believing that the [suspect] had committed or was committing an offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Probable cause can be found as a matter of law, however, only when the facts permit but one conclusion--that is, 'only when no reasonable jury could find that the officer[ ] did not have probable cause' to make an arrest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the severity of the crime at issue, whether the suspect poses an immediate threat to the safety of the officers or others, and whether [the suspect] is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight.”
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.