Brown v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
823 F.2d 167 · 1987
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Armstrong v. Squadrito (1998), Rodriguez v. Farrell (2002)
24 federal appellate · 4 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · Baker v. McCollan · Hill v. California · Powe v. City of Chicago
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a prolonged confinement of an arrested person without a hearing to determine whether he is the person named in the warrant would be a deprivation of liberty without due process of law and thus violate the Fourteenth Amendment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If like many criminals [the person listed in the warrant] has an alias — and there is no suggestion that he does not, in fact, use the alias of `Anthony Brown' — it would not be surprising if he also has a false address and birthdate.... Harvey, where [the plaintiff] was arrested, surrounds Phoenix, where he lives, and is near Chicago, where [the person listed in the warrant] lives (or lived when the warrant was issued — he presumably decamped shortly afterward, or he would have been arrested).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodriguez v. Farrell
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.