Booker v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
94 F.3d 1052 · 1996
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Covington v. City of New York (1999), Kelley v. Myler (1998)
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Heck v. Humphrey · Beck v. State of Ohio · New Jersey v. New York · United States v. Alaska · White v. Illinois
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one can have a successful wrongful arrest claim and still have a perfectly valid conviction.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'as an omniscient observer would perceive them but on the facts as they would have appeared to a reasonable person in the position of the arresting officer--seeing what he saw, hearing what he heard.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court appropriately may conclude that probable cause existed as a matter of law when there is no room for a difference of opinion concerning the facts or the reasonable inferences to be drawn from them.”
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.