Mesa v. Prejean’s Empirical Analysis
543 F.3d 264 · 2008
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Whitley v. Hanna (2013), Turner v. Driver (2017)
7 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Whren v. United States · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · City of Houston v. Hill · Devenpeck v. Alford
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts need to be alert to arrests that are prompted by constitutionally protected speech, even when the arrestee's words are directed at a police officer performing official tasks. Trained officers must exercise restraint when confronted with a citizen's anger over police action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If [probable cause] exists, any argument that the arrestee's speech as opposed to her criminal conduct was the motivation for her arrest must fail, no matter how clearly that speech may be protected by the First Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Westfall v. Luna“Qualified immunity is a question of law, but where there are genuine disputes of material fact relevant to immunity, the jury decides the question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marshall v. Russell
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.