Thompson v. Prince William County’s Empirical Analysis
753 F.2d 363 · 1985
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Rodriguez v. Farrell (2002), William Brady and Theresa Brady v. Maryann Dill et al. (1999)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Illinois v. Gates · Mary B. Sigmon v. William E. Poe, Individually
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.
“[I]t simply demands too much to expect police officers on the basis of slight discrepancies of height ... and weight or in color of eyes ... and hair ... to abandon obtention or execution of a warrant on someone who, for other strong indications ..., meets the warrant’s description.”). 6 . Lieutenant Wiita is also entitled to qualified immunity with respect to the state false imprisonment claim, as it is settled Virginia law that an officer cannot be found liable for false imprisonment if he acted”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]ot every mix-up in the issuance of the arrest warrant, even though it leads to the arrest of the wrong person, with attendant inconvenience and humiliation, automatically constitutes a constitutional violation for which a remedy may be sought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.”
2 later decisions 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.