Wilson v. Attaway’s Empirical Analysis
757 F.2d 1227 · 1985
Citation profile
88 federal appellate · 5 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 179 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Jernigan (2003), United States v. Four Million, Two Hundred Fifty-Five Thousand (1985)
88 federal appellate · 5 district · 17 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000G · 42 U.S.C. § 2000G
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Carroll v. United States · Chimel v. California · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be judged not with clinical detachment but with a common sense view to the realities of normal life.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Probable cause [to arrest] exists where 'the facts and circumstances within [the officers'] knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information [are] sufficient in themselves to warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that' an offense has been or is being committed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) The conviction has been the subject of a pardon, annu[l]ment, certificate of rehabilitation, or other equivalent procedure, and (2) The procedure under which the same was granted or issued required a substantial showing of rehabilitation or was based on innocence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Wickham v. State · State v. Radan
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.