Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
843 F.3d 509 · 2016
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2020
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Scott v. Harris · Beck v. State of Ohio · Rehberg v. Paulk · Edmond v. United States Postal Service General Counsel
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This factual dispute, which goes to the heart of the central element of the [offense at issue], makes it impossible to evaluate the totality of the circumstances at the time of the arrests ... and therefore the [c]ourt cannot determine as a matter of law whether [the defendant officers] had probable cause to arrest [the] plaintiffs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sherrod v. McHugh“at the moment the arrest [i]s made ... the facts and circumstances within [the officer's] knowledge and of which [the officer] had reasonably trustworthy information [a]re sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing' that the suspect has committed or is committing a crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sherrod v. McHugh“[t]he existence of probable cause foreclosed not only [the plaintiff's] false arrest, malicious prosecution and Fourth Amendment claims, but also his claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress based on his arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.