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Caruso v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
5
states following
June 2001
most recently cited

14 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2001 · most notably National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab (1989), Schaill Kross v. Tippecanoe County School Corporation (1988)

14 state decisions

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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.

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.

  1. “the potentially fatal risks to fellow officers and others if a drug abusing OCCB officer is called upon to use a weapon while under the influence of drugs in inherently high-risk assignments.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “have a very diminished expectation of privacy due to their pursuit of service in the elite unit based on conditions known in advance”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.