Floyd v. Farrell’s Empirical Analysis
765 F.2d 1 · 1985
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 45 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Connie Robison v. Susan R. Via and Harold Harrison (1987), Myers v. Morris (1987)
67 federal appellate · 45 district · 5 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Federal Energy Administration v. Algonquin SNG, Inc. · Robert C. Hahn v. Francis W. Sargent
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“challenged as unsupported by probable cause [it] is deemed 'objectively reasonable' unless 'there clearly was no probable cause at the time the arrest was made.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“government officials performing discretionary functions, generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Harlow standard requires that we make an objective analysis of the reasonableness of conduct in light of the facts actually known to the officer and not consider the individual officer's subjective assessment of those facts. Nor are actual motives for conduct to be considered in evaluating a qualified immunity defense.”
5 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.