Green v. Denison’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Southers v. City of Farmington (2008), Heins Implement Co. v. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission (1993)
6 federal appellate · 35 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 18 U.S.C. § 3109 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on 68 Cal. 2d 299 - People v. Rosales · Grandstaff v. City of Borger · Schear v. Board of County Commissioners · Robertson v. City of Topeka · Kanagawa v. State by and Through Freeman
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree that public officials may be expected to keep their wits about them, and must not assume an attitude of arrogant disregard toward the safety of members of the public. In the present case, however, the breaches of duty assigned are part and parcel of the officers’ judgmental decisions. As to this conduct, no particularized duty was owed to the plaintiffs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murray v. Leyshock“To make an arrest in criminal actions, the officer may break open any outer or inner door or window of a dwelling house or other building, or any other enclosure, if, after notice of his office and purpose, he be refused admittance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gibbs
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.