Washington v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
806 F.2d 192 · 1986
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably Hart v. O'Brien (1997), United States v. Risse (1996)
19 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Payton v. New York · Michigan v. · General Building Contractors Assn., Inc. v. Pennsylvania · West v. United States
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]ederal constitutional law does not require the actual possession of a warrant in cases where the arresting officer has knowledge of its existence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an officer to arrest a suspect without a warrant if there is probable cause to believe that the suspect has committed or is committing an offense.”
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.