Dufrin v. Oakland County Sheriff Johannes Spreen’s Empirical Analysis
712 F.2d 1084 · 1983
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Fuller v. Mg Jewelry (1991), Weber v. Dell (1986)
26 federal appellate · 10 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bell v. Wolfish · Owen v. City of Independence · Gomez v. Toledo · Procunier v. Navarette
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Since this is a purely individual claim under § 1983, we are not asked—by declaratory judgment or otherwise—to make any rules of broad application or to lay down any bright line based the type of crime charged. It is enough here that (a) the arrestee was formally charged with a felony involving violence, (b) that her detention was under circumstances which would subject her potentially to mingle with the jail population as a whole, and (c) that the search actually conducted was visual only and was carried out discreetly and in privacy. Where these circumstances exist, we do not believe that the sheriff is obliged, as a matter of federal constitutional law, to make a subjective evaluation of the underlying nature of the offense or to determine whether a less intrusive search may be employed____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“they have invariably involved misdemeanors, traffic offenses, or similar minor offenses not normally associated with weapons or contraband.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Masters v. Crouch“no claim of offensive behavior ... beyond that inherent in the nature of the inspection itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vaughan v. Ricketts
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.