Datz v. Kilgore’s Empirical Analysis
51 F.3d 252 · 1995
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Hughes v. Lott (2003), Harvey v. Waldron (2000)
13 federal appellate · 2 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 Heck v. Humphrey · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Pennzoil Company v. Texaco Inc · Narey v. Dean · Wood v. Orange County
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because, even if the pertinent search did violate the Federal Constitution, Datz' conviction might still be valid considering such doctrines as inevitable discovery, independent source, and harmless error”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The state court upheld the constitutionality of the pertinent search; so plaintiff Datz cannot have success on the merits of his section 1983 claim unless the state court was wrong in its conclusion that the search was lawful ____ Because the state court did squarely adjudicate the issue of the lawfulness of the search, Datz’ section 1983 suit is nothing but a “prohibited appeal of the state-court judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A federal suit is so intertwined with the earlier state court judgment “if the federal claim succeeds only to the extent that the state court wrongly decided the issues before it.” Pennzoil Co. v. Texaco, Inc., 481 U.S. 1, 25 , 107 S.Ct. 1519 , 95 L.Ed.2d 1 (1987) (Marshall, J., concurring).”
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.