Duncan v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
592 F.2d 1336 · 1979
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably Gilmere v. City of Atlanta (1985), Lawmaster v. Ward (1997)
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Kelsaw v. Oregon · Meisel Et Al. v. United States · Rodriguez v. Jones
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[l]aw enforcement officers having a good faith and reasonable belief in the validity of the search warrant may nonetheless incur liability under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 ... if the warrant is executed in an unreasonable manner”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“From the moment of entry until the moment of departure, appellees' conduct was subject to scrutiny for reasonableness under the fourth amendment.”
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.