Baker v. Monroe Township’s Empirical Analysis
50 F.3d 1186 · 1995
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 32 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 225 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Ashcroft v. Iqbal (2009), Robinson v. City of Pittsburgh (1997)
56 federal appellate · 32 district · 8 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 Terry v. Ohio · Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor · City of Canton v. Harris · United States v. Sharpe
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 225 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“simply no evidence of anything that should have caused the officers to use the kind of force they are alleged to have used.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Here, accepting the Bakers’ testimony, the police used all of those intrusive methods without any reason to feel threatened by the Bakers, or to fear the Bakers would escape ... the appearances were those of a family paying a social visit ... there is simply no evidence of anything that should have caused the officers to use the kind of force they are alleged to have used.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the intrusiveness of all aspects of the incident in the aggregate.”
3 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.