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895 F.2d 649 · 1990

Citation profile

85
cited by 85 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
April 2025
most recently cited

29 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 85 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Albright v. Oliver (1994), Romero v. Fay (1995)

29 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 state decisions

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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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988

Relies on Wilson v. Garcia · Logarusic v. United States · Wrenn v. Gould · Ramos v. Lamm · Rose 88-1634 v. Bartle a Reed W 88-1646

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

  1. “[A] prosecutor's decision to charge, a grand jury's decision to indict, a prosecutor's decision not to drop charges but to proceed to trial--none of these decisions will shield a police officer who deliberately supplied misleading information that influenced that decision.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Thomas v. City of Snyder · 707 F. Supp. 2d 1190 - Kerns v. Board of Com'rs of Bernalillo County
  2. “remained subject to . . . serious charges and went on trial for his life again . . . when the malicious prosecution conspiracy again resulted in presentation of the false case against him.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Smith v. Gonzales
  3. “conspiracy is a viable claim under § 1983,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Bernard Wayne Williams v. Olathe, Kansas Police Department, and William Sullivan

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.