Tinetti v. Wittke’s Empirical Analysis
620 F.2d 160 · 1980
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 12 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Wood v. Ostrander (1989), Mary Beth v. City of Chicago Tikalsky (1983)
40 federal appellate · 12 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 479 F. Supp. 486 - Tinetti v. Wittke
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The searches were conducted despite the absence of probable cause to believe that the detainees were concealing contraband or weapons on their bodies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Skurstenis v. Jones
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.