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1987

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
September 2003
most recently cited

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Anderson v. Creighton

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a]ll § 1983 requires in these matters is for police officers to act reasonably and to do the best job possible under difficult circumstances.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Mary Cherrington and Daija King, a Minor, by and Through Her Mother and Next Friend, Mary Cherrington v. Andre Skeeter, John Kinney, and City of Circleville, Ohio
  2. “police officers in domestic relations situations must make spontaneous decisions based on incomplete, and sometimes inaccurate, information,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Mary Cherrington and Daija King, a Minor, by and Through Her Mother and Next Friend, Mary Cherrington v. Andre Skeeter, John Kinney, and City of Circleville, Ohio

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.