Pahls v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
718 F.3d 1210 · 2013
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 19 district · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3056 (Presidential Protection Assistance Act of 1976) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Geography has long been peculiarly susceptible to judicial notice for the obvious reason that geographic locations are facts which are not generally controversial * * *.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[W]e take judicial notice of a Google map and satellite image as a 'source[ ] whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Bradford · State v. Isaac“[W]e take judicial notice of a Google map and satellite image as a 'source[ ] whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned.' " Pahls v. Thomas , 718 F.3d 1210 , 1216, fn. 1 (10th Cir.2013), quoting United States v. Perea-Rey , 680 F.3d 1179 , 1182, fn. 1 (9th Cir. 2012) (second alteration in original) (quoting Fed.R.Evid. 201(b) ); see Citizens for Peace in Space v. Colorado Springs , 477 F.3d 1212 , 1218, fn. 2 (10th Cir. 2007) (taking judicial notice of an online distance calculation that relied on Google Maps data). {¶ 70} " 'Geography has long been peculiarly susceptible to judicial notice for the obvious reason that geographic locations are facts which are not generally controversial * * *.' " Id., quoting United States v. Piggie , 622 F.2d 486 , 488 (10th Cir.1980). " See also David J. Dansky, The Google Knows Many Things: Judicial Notice in the Internet Era , 39 Colo. Law. 19 , 24 (2010) ('Most courts are willing to take judicial notice of geographical facts and distances from private commercial websites such as MapQuest, Google Maps, and Google Earth.').”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Bradford
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.