Capone v. Marinelli’s Empirical Analysis
868 F.2d 102 · 1989
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Sharrar v. Felsing (1997), Berg v. County of Allegheny (2000)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pierson v. Ray · United States v. Hensley · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the objective reading of the flyer or bulletin that determines whether other police officers can defensibly act in reliance on it.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We do not, of course, question that the ... police were entitled to act on the strength of the radio bulletin.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Given that the ... bulletin expressly states that a warrant existed for the arrest of Capone, as well as the nature of the alleged offenses ... [the] offieer[’s] reliance upon the bulletin cannot be said to have been unreasonable. Therefore, as a matter of law, the protection of qualified immunity ... extends to[the officer],”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rogers v. Powell
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.