Smith v. Springer’s Empirical Analysis
859 F.2d 31 · 1988
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Ricciuti v. N.Y.C. Transit Authority (1997), Nesses v. Shepard (1995)
19 federal appellate ·
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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla. · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · Wooley v. Maynard
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“His section 1983 claim challenges the legality of the conduct of the officers and does not impugn the integrity of the state judicial system. Although the correctness of Smith’s conviction may be seriously undermined if he succeeds on his claim, he does not seek this result directly. His lawsuit challenges the conduct of the police officers and not the actions or procedures of the Illinois courts. Thus, Smith’s section 1983 claim is not a collateral attack on his state court conviction. ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The defendants apparently read this complaint as stating that Smith can only prevail on his section 1983 claim if his conviction is invalid. This is not necessarily so. Smith need not legally attack the validity of his conviction to prevail on his section 1983 claim if he can prove that the defendant’s misconduct injured him. The causation element of section 1983 requires only that the plaintiff prove that the defendant, acting ‘under color’ of law, caused the deprivation of his constitutional rights. 42 U.S.C. § 1983 . Smith, therefore, can prevail if he shows that the defendants fabricated evidence leading to his false arrest and subsequent unreasonable seizure, see, e.g., Olson v. Tyler, 825 F.2d 1116 (7th Cir.1987); Bohannon v. Pegelow, 652 F.2d 729 (7th Cir.1981) causing him to suffer damages.””
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.