Reardon v. Wroan’s Empirical Analysis
811 F.2d 1025 · 1987
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Anderson v. Creighton (1987), Hancock v. Dodson (1992)
49 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Payton v. New York · Malley v. Briggs · Welsh v. Wisconsin · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an exclusive living arrangement with the goal of maximizing the privacy of its affairs”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“should be afforded an extra degree of deference.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]efendants were faced with a call reporting a burglary in progress during a time of year when [ ] students were on break and burglaries were known to occur more frequently. And when they arrived they found a single car in the driveway and the door to the residence unlocked. Therefore, ... we conclude based on these facts that the exigency requirement was satisfied as a matter of law.”
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.