Thompson v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 552 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Jones v. City of Chicago (1988), Brennan v. Hendrigan (1989)
14 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 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
Relies on Daniels v. Williams · Gerstein v. Pugh · Rochin v. People of California · Davidson v. Cannon · Johnson v. Glick
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a police officer, upon an initial finding of probable cause, may [not] close his eyes to all subsequent developments.... Probable cause to arrest does not suspend an officer's continuing obligation to act 'reasonably.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ascertains beyond a reasonable doubt that the suspicion (probable cause) which forms the basis for the privilege to arrest is unfounded.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“close his eyes to all subsequent developments”
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.