Collins v. Nagle’s Empirical Analysis
892 F.2d 489 · 1989
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Dickerson v. Mcclellan (1996), United States v. Shareef (1996)
29 federal appellate · 3 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Conley v. Gibson · Graham v. Connor · Parratt v. Taylor · Beck v. State of Ohio
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probable cause may be established from the collective knowledge of the police rather than solely from the officer who actually made the arrest”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he fourth amendment reasonableness standard does not turn on the availability of less intrusive alternatives.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reneer · John E. Reneer Martha Elaine Rafferty, Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Children, Crystal Rafferty and Jamie Rafferty and Daniel Reneer, on Behalf of James F. Reneer, a Minor v. Frank Wall Ronald Long Charles Newton Keith Haire Jerry Epison Jerald Nickens Tom Castlen and James Werthington“Since the knowledge of the ... investigators working together on the scene and in communication with each other is mutually imputed, we do not require that every arresting officer possess all of the information that, when amassed, gives rise to probable cause.”
2 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.