Smiddy v. Varney’s Empirical Analysis
803 F.2d 1469 · 1986
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Galbraith v. County of Santa Clara (2002), Townes v. City of New York (1999)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Malley v. Briggs · Blum v. Stenson · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for harm suffered after the prosecutor initiated formal prosecution .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Patel v. Dennett“that the officers knowingly withheld relevant information”
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.