Hensley v. Carey’s Empirical Analysis
818 F.2d 646 · 1987
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Moore (1997), Pace v. City of Des Moines (2000)
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 Stovall v. Denno · Manson v. Brathwaite · Kirby v. Illinois · Bennett v. Passic · Wainwright Bank & Trust Company v. Railroadmens Federal Savings & Loan Association of Indianapolis, Robert H. Wilson, Samuel L. Dowden, and Nancy C. Dowden, and Third-Party v. The United States Small Business Administration, Third-Party
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a prophylactic rule designed to protect a core right, that is the right to a fair trial, and it is only the violation of the core right and not the prophylactic rule that should be actionable under § 1983.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he police are not required to conduct a search for identical twins in age, height, weight or facial features ... [w]hat is required is the attempt to conduct a fair lineup, taking all steps reasonable under the 'totality of the circumstances' to secure such result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Miranda decision does not even suggest that police officers who fail to advise an arrested person of his rights are subject to civil liability; it requires, at most, only that any confession made in the absence of such advice be excluded from evidence.”
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.