Blake v. Katter’s Empirical Analysis
693 F.2d 677 · 1982
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Wilson v. Garcia (1985), 550 So. 2d 406 - Smith v. State (1989)
22 federal appellate · 8 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Barker v. Wingo · Haines v. Kerner · Bell v. Wolfish · Allen v. McCurry
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) All actions against a sheriff, or other public officer, or against such officer and his sureties on a public bond, growing out of a liability incurred by doing an act in an official capacity, or by the omission of an official duty, within five [5] years; but an action may be brought against the officer or his legal representatives, for money collected in an official capacity, and not paid over, at any time within six [6] years.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he court made a finding of probable cause, issued an arrest warrant and fixed bond”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Byrd“an allegation of excessive force during an arrest is cognizable under Sec. 1983,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thornton v. Spooner
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.