Ross v. Ristaino’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.2d 754 · 1974
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. Allen · Peters v. Kiff · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba · Ham v. South Carolina · Aldridge v. United States
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a status close to that of a police officer,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ristaino v. Ross
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.