Goodwin v. Metts’s Empirical Analysis
885 F.2d 157 · 1989
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Albright v. Oliver (1994), Shaw v. Stroud (1994)
26 federal appellate · 4 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Anderson v. Creighton · Monroe v. Pape · Malley v. Briggs · United States v. Marion
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] police officer who [maliciously] withholds exculpatory information from the prosecutor can be liable [for malicious prosecution] under both section 1983 and the state common law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'only if, as a matter of law, the record is critically deficient of that minimum quantity of evidence from which a jury might reasonably [have denied] relief.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'reasonable and fair-minded [people] in the exercise of impartial judgment could reasonably return a verdict for the nonmoving party.'”
2 later decisions 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.