Scoby v. Neal’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville · Marshall v. Barlow's, Inc. · City of Houston v. Hill
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable grounds to believe that the person has contraband on his person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scoby v. Neal
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.