Patton v. Przybylski’s Empirical Analysis

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50 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions

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

1. “[T]o arrest a person over his vigorous protest that he is the wrong man — a protest given.some credibility in this case by the-driver’s license — and keep him in jail for this period without either investigating the case or bringing him before a magistrate raises serious constitutional questions. ... Baker v. McCol-lan is not to the contrary.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kelly v. Jones · Rafael Garcia v. City of Chicago, Illinois, Anna Gall, County of Cook

2. “Obviously, one in respondent’s position could not be detained indefinitely in the face of repeated protests of innocence even though the warrant under which he was arrested and detained met the standards of the Fourth Amendment. For the Constitution likewise guarantees an accused the right to a speedy trial, and invocation of the speedy trial right need not await indictment or other formal charge; arrest pursuant to probable cause is itself sufficient.... We may even assume, arguendo, that, depending on what procedure the State affords defendants following arrest and prior to actual trial, mere detention pursuant to a valid warrant but in the face of repeated protests of innocence will after the lapse of a certain amount of time deprive the accused of “liberty ... without due process of law.” But we are quite certain that a detention of three days over a New Year’s weekend does not and could not amount to such a deprivation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. McDonald v. Dunning

3. “[although an arrest is a deprivation of liberty and could in principle therefore be challenged under the Fourteenth Amendment without reference to the Fourth Amendment, the latter is a more specific regulation of arrests and searches and a plaintiff who cannot make a case under the Fourth Amendment will not be heard if he appeals to the principles of due process instead.... A false arrest falls squarely within the scope of the Fourth Amendment....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 41 F. Supp. 2d 801 - Samuel v. City of Chicago