Spak v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
857 F.3d 458 · 2017
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Heck v. Humphrey · Gallo v. Prudential Residential Services, Ltd. Partnership · Wallace v. Kato · Wallace v. Kato · Singer v. Fulton County Sheriff
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nder the common law any final termination of a criminal proceeding in favor of the accused, such that the proceeding cannot be brought again, qualifies as a favorable termination for purposes of a malicious prosecution action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“However, the time at which a claim ... under [§] 1983 accrues is a question of federal law that is not resolved by reference to state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McDonough v. Smith“the statute of limitations for the analogous claim under the law of the state where the cause of action accrued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McDonough v. Smith
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.