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880 F.3d 256 · 2018

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
January 2025
most recently cited

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · United States v. Leon · Pearson v. Callahan · Malley v. Briggs

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he affidavit ... must establish some other reason to believe that drugs or other evidence of crime [will] be found in the suspect's residence.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “A genuine dispute of material fact exists 'if the evidence is such that a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the nonmoving party.'”
    3 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.