Smith v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
670 F.2d 522 · 1982
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Barts v. Joyner (1989), Hand v. Gary (1988)
45 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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
Relies on Pierson v. Ray · Baker v. McCollan · Procunier v. Navarette · Lustig v. United States · Barker v. Norman
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`even an officer who acted with malice in procuring the warrant or the indictment will not be liable if the facts supporting the warrant or indictment are put before an impartial intermediary such as a magistrate or grand jury, for that intermediary's `independent' decision `breaks the causal chain' and insulates the initiating party.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“... a bad faith motive to 'get' a suspect is irrelevant if the arrest is supported ... by the existence of probable cause. Hunter v. Clardy, 558 F.2d 290 , 292 (5th Cir.1977).... Once ... probable cause comes into existence, it becomes an officer's duty to arrest the suspect regardless of his personal feelings, good or ill, towards the suspect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Brown v. Edwards“breaks the causal chain” and insulates the initiating party); Rodriguez v. Ritchey, 556 F.2d 1185 , 1193 (5th Cir.1977)(en banc), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 1047 , 98 S.Ct. 894 , 54 L.Ed.2d 799 (1978). 50 . See Shields v. Twiss, 389 F.3d 142 , 150 (5th Cir.2004)(”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Murray v. Earle
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.