Gerald M. v. Conneely’s Empirical Analysis
858 F.2d 378 · 1988
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Cortez v. McCauley (2007), Woods v. City of Chicago (2000)
30 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Gault · Stanley v. Illinois
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen an officer has 'received his information from some person--normally the putative victim or an eye witness--who it seems reasonable to believe is telling the truth,' he has probable cause.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n officer is entitled to rely on an eyewitness identification to establish probable cause. Probable cause exists unless, at the time of the arrest, there is an apparent reason for the officer to believe that the eyewitness 'was lying, did not accurately describe what he had seen, or was in some fashion mistaken regarding his recollection of the confrontation.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Complainant's] subsequent silence and apparent acquiescence persuades us that [the officer's] presence in the home was not against [the complainant's] apparent wishes.”
2 later decisions 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.