Robert Harper, Jr. v. D. B. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
679 F.2d 955 · 1982
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably Page v. United States (1984), Guenther v. Holmgreen (1984)
15 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Hood · Baker v. McCollan · Hagans v. Lavine
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent an attack on the validity of the warrant under which he was arrested, respondent’s complaint is simply that despite his protests of mistaken identity, he was detained in ... jail_ Whatever claims this situation might give rise to under state tort law, we think it gives rise to no claim under the United States Constitution. Respondent was indeed deprived of his liberty for a period of days, but it was pursuant to a warrant conforming, for purposes of our decision, to the requirements of the Fourth Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a suit may sometimes be dismissed for want of jurisdiction where the alleged claim under the Constitution or federal statutes clearly appears to be ... wholly insubstantial and frivolous. The accuracy of calling these dismissals jurisdictional has been questioned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“under the Constitution or laws of the United States”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark
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.