Gorra v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis
880 F.2d 95 · 1989
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Act Up!/Portland v. Bagley (1992), Von Stein v. Brescher (1990)
26 federal appellate · 6 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 · Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor · Malley v. Briggs · Carnegie v. United States
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether qualified immunity exists, the issue is 'not probable cause in fact but "arguable”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Actual probable cause ... is not necessary for an arrest to be objectively reasonable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because the law had not been construed at the time of the arrest, and because the troopers' interpretation was not inconsistent with common understanding, we cannot say that [their] interpretation of the statute was unreasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Michael v. Trevena
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.