Whitley v. Seibel’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 682 · 1980
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Crowder v. Lash (1982), Schertz v. Waupaca County (1989)
26 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Baker v. McCollan · Brubaker v. King · 44 Ill. App. 3d 894 - People v. Patterson
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.
“If the officer undertakes to make decisions which are not his to make and then intentionally misleads those who do have the ultimate authority to authorize the arrest, the officer may be found to have deprived the arrestee of his liberty without due process of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Sanborn · Mark v. Furay“facts and circumstances of the case to the assistant state's attorneys”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It appears from the testimony that had that assistant state's attorney been fully and honestly briefed by the defendant and had not been misled, it is very doubtful that the arrest would have been authorized.... We do not believe that kind of behavior by an officer to accomplish an arrest may be excused by the Baker holding.... Although some of the defendant's acts of omission may have been only negligent, there is a strong suggestion of intentional and concealed corner-cutting to accomplish the arrest.”
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.