Boyce v. Fernandes’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 946 · 1996
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Oates v. Discovery Zone (1997), Van Harken v. City of Chicago (1997)
15 federal appellate · 3 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 · Malley v. Briggs · Hunter v. Bryant · Jones v. City of Chicago · Mahoney v. Kesery
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the only issue bearing on immunity is whether the defendant had probable cause to make the search or arrest that is challenged, merits and immunity merge; the dispositive question is simply whether the defendant did have probable cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Watson“unreliable witness because of limited mental capacity undeveloped in the case of the child, impaired by old age in the case of the elder.... Accusations by demented persons must always be viewed with a certain skepticism....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the concept of probable cause has not changed in a great many years”). Indeed, Boyce, id. characterized the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Humphrey v. Demitro
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.