Woods v. Harrell’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
February 2007
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gerstein v. Pugh · Baker v. McCollan · Harrison v. Schrader · Street v. Calvert · City of Nome v. Ailak
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the duty of the person making an arrest to take precaution against arresting an innocent person, and this require[s] the making of such investigation as the circumstances permit. The circumstances under which he must act should be such as any reasonable person acting without passion or prejudice, would have fairly suspected that the plaintiff committed the crime or was implicated in it. [Woods v. Harrell, 596 S.W.2d 92, 96 (Tenn.Ct.App.1979)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.