Lindsey v. Storey’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 554 · 1991
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Post v. City of Fort Lauderdale (1993), Jones v. Cannon (1999)
22 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Terry v. Ohio · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven assuming the continued retention of plaintiffs’ personal property is wrongful, no procedural due process violation has occurred ‘if a meaningful [post-deprivation] remedy for the loss is available.’ ” Id. The Eleventh Circuit in Lindsey held that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the same way, it is inevitable that law enforcement officers will sometimes reasonably but mistakenly conclude that reasonable suspicion is present, and these officers are protected by qualified immunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is inevitable that law enforcement officials will in some cases reasonably but mistakenly conclude that probable cause is present, and ... those officials ... should not be held personally liable.”
1 later decision 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.