Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably No. 99-1081 (1999), 174 F. Supp. 2d 61 - In Re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation (2001)
11 district · 3 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 Anderson v. Creighton · Florida v. Royer · Malley v. Briggs · Beck v. State of Ohio · Hunter v. Bryant
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Murphy’s testimony was offered to show that Officers Lindman and Bevins had acted reasonably in their encounter with Peterson. Over the course of his testimony, Murphy set forth his opinion as to why each action the officers took was consistent with “nationally accepted standards.” His overall opinion was that the officers’ conduct comported with the “standards under the Fourth Amendment.” Expert opinion testimony is admissible only if it “will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue.” Fed.R.Evid. 702 .... [T]he only disputed issues at trial involved whether the officers actually had probable cause and whether, under qualified immunity analysis, they could reasonably believe they had probable cause. Both probable cause and qualified immunity are ultimately questions of law. See Estes v. Moore, 993 F.2d 161, 163 (8th Cir.1993) (per curiam) (probable cause); Engle v. Townsley, 49 F.3d 1321, 1323 (8th Cir.1995) (qualified immunity). The jury’s role is limited to settling disputes as to predicate facts. See Arnott v. Mataya, 995 F.2d 121, 123-24 (8th Cir.1993). In this case, that means the jury was entitled to determine what facts were known to the officers at the time of the arrest. None of Murphy’s testimony assisted the jury in this regard. Murphy’s testimony involved only his views concerning the reasonableness of the officers’ conduct in light of “Fourth Amendment standards.” To that end, his testimony was not a fact-based opinion,”
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.