Singer v. Fulton County Sheriff’s Empirical Analysis
63 F.3d 110 · 1995
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 68 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 579 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Hartman v. Moore (2006), Weyant v. Okst (1996)
100 federal appellate · 68 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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Graham v. Connor · Parratt v. Taylor · Heck v. Humphrey · United States v. Mendenhall
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 579 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knowledge or reasonably trustworthy information sufficient to warrant a person of reasonable caution in the belief that an offense has been committed by the person to be arrested.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] plaintiff asserting a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claim under § 1983 must therefore show some deprivation of liberty consistent with the concept of `seizure.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“although Singer alleges damage to his reputation, he has failed to allege with sufficient particularity any actual 'chilling' of his speech, or of his participation in the political process. While the vague allegations in his complaint might carry such a suggestion, Singer did not press this issue in the district court, nor did he advance any arguments in support of this particular claim on appeal. As a matter of fact, Singer continued to publish his newspaper.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berg v. Kelly · Ragbir v. Homan
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.