Bigford v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
834 F.2d 1213 · 1988
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably United States v. Rocha (1990), Kuehl v. Burtis (1999)
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Brinegar v. United States · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · Draper 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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a corollary ... of the rule that the police may rely on the totality of facts available to them in establishing probable cause, they also may not disregard facts tending to dissipate probable cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In addition to his judicial duties, a Texas county judge is charged by the state constitution and statutes with the performance of numerous executive, legislative and administrative chores in the day-to-day governance of the county. The narrow authority delegated to the county judge in [this statute], however, bears no relation to his traditional role in the administration of county government or to the discretionary powers delegated to him by state statute in aid of that role. Instead, his duty in implementing [this statute], much like that of a county sheriff in enforcing state law, may more fairly be characterized as the effectuation of the policy of the [state] embodied in that statute, for which the citizens of a particular county should not bear singular responsibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'when the facts and circumstances within the arresting officer's personal knowledge, or of which he has reasonably trustworthy information, are sufficient to occasion a person of reasonable prudence to believe an offense has been committed.'”
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.