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Merriman v. Walton’s Empirical Analysis

856 F.2d 1333 · 1988

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
January 2019
most recently cited

14 federal appellate · 4 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Fuller v. Mg Jewelry (1991), Badea v. Cox (1991)

14 federal appellate · 4 district ·

1501988199020002010decided

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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · White v. Pierce County · Guerra v. Sutton

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

  1. “[a] reasonable police officer would have made further inquiry before effecting a warrantless arrest.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Chuck Johnson v. Peter S. Krohn, Jane Doe Krohn, Husband and Wife Jane Doe Wertanen, John Doe Wertanen, Husband and Wife, Chuck Johnson v. Peter S. Krohn Jane Doe Krohn, Husband and Wife, and John Doe Wertanen Jane Doe Wertanen, Husband and Wife · Fuller v. Mg Jewelry
  2. “a reasonable police officer, knowing what [the arresting officers] knew, could have believed there was probable cause for [the Fullers'] warrantless arrest.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Fuller v. Mg Jewelry
  3. “that Merriman ... was [the alleged victim's] long-time boyfriend ... [and that] the alleged victim of the kidnapping had returned.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Fuller v. Mg Jewelry

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.