Camille Deloach v. Mitzi Bevers’s Empirical Analysis
922 F.2d 618 · 1990
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 27 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Reichle v. Howards (2012), Reichle v. Howards (2012)
57 federal appellate · 27 district · 6 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 United States v. Leon · Franks v. Delaware · Malley v. Briggs · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · St. Amant v. Thompson
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An act taken in retaliation for the exercise of a constitutionally protected right is actionable under § 1983 even if the act, when taken for a different reason, would have been proper.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'if the magistrate or judge in issuing a warrant was misled by information in an affidavit that the affiant knew was false or would have known was false except for his reckless disregard of the truth.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have long recognized that it is a jury question in a civil rights suit whether an officer had probable cause to arrest.”
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.