Thomas A. Guerro v. Roger F. Mulhearn, Ralph F. Andrews v. Kathy Decote Young’s Empirical Analysis
498 F.2d 1249 · 1974
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 23 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Imbler v. Pachtman (1976), Deakins v. Monaghan (1988)
105 federal appellate · 23 district · 3 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from New Hampshire District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Haines v. Kerner · Younger v. Harris · Monroe v. Pape
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he potential for federal-state friction is obvious.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“implying that a state conviction is or would be illegal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“as alleging that the Worcester police officers acted in bad faith in knowingly obtaining the wiretap order ... and that the Worcester district attorney and the state police officers cooperated with them in these ventures”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Broam v. Bogan · Broam v. Bogan
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.