Greer v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
603 F.2d 521 · 1979
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2012
5 federal appellate ·
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 · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · United States v. Greer
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The sole issue before this court in [the earlier] appeal was the voluntariness of the confession Greer made while being held in custody following his arrest. We accepted Greer’s argument that “there was no probable cause to arrest.or detain” him ... but concluded that [his confession was not the product of an illegal arrest]. Contrary to the district court’s conclusion, therefore, our disposition of Greer’s appeal did not resolve the false arrest and detention argument against Greer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Greer v. Turner
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.