Armstead v. Escobedo’s Empirical Analysis
488 F.2d 509 · 1974
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2010
5 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Joske v. Irvine · Jones v. Illinois ex rel. Electoral Board · Whirl v. Kern · J. C. Penney Co. v. Reynolds
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Texas law a private citizen does not incur liability simply because he mistakenly informs the police that the suspect .has committed a crime whenever the suspect is not thereafter successfully prosecuted. Rather, the citizen must actually direct the police to make the arrest.” (citations omitted) (emphasis in original)).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rather, the citizen must actually direct the police to make the arrest.”
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.