Swint’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Tamiami Partners Ltd Tamiami Development Corporation v. Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida (1995), Hamilton Hamilton v. Cannon Ga Xyz Hamilton Hamilton
1 district · 1 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Illinois v. Gates · Katz v. United States · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp.
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a plaintiff sues a municipal officer in the officer’s individual capacity for alleged civil rights violations, the plaintiff seeks money damages directly from the individual officer. If sued “individually,” a municipal officer may raise an affirmative defense of good faith, or “qualified,” immunity.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]pplying the qualified immunity test in the context of Plaintiff's alleged unlawful arrest, we must determine whether reasonable officers in the same circumstances and possessing the same knowledge as the Defendants could have believed that probable cause existed to arrest Plaintiff....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“); Von Stein v. Brescher, 904 F.2d 572 , 579 (11th Cir.1990) (”
2 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.