Benedda Cotten v. Ryan Miller’s Empirical Analysis
2023
Citation profile
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Minnesota District Court)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Brigham City v. Stuart · Michigan v. Fisher · Tierney ex rel. Newton v. Davidson · United States v. Bartelho
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t was reasonable for the officers to believe that a woman . . . in the . . . apartment was a victim of domestic violence, and was injured or threatened with future injury.”
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.