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← 800 FSUPP 1235 - Allen v. Wrightson

Allen v. Wrightson’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 2001
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988

Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Anderson v. Creighton · Payton v. New York · Malley v. Briggs · Gerstein v. Pugh

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If . . . the papers submitted by Florida were to show that a judicial officer or tribunal there had found probable cause, Massachusetts would not need to find probable cause anew, nor would it need to review the adequacy of the Florida determination.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Whether the probable cause determination made prior to plaintiff's arrest was made by a judicial officer [where warrant was issued] or[where plaintiff was arrested] is immaterial for Fourth Amendment purposes.”
    1 later decision 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.