Prokey v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
942 F.2d 67 · 1991
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 23 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Hegarty v. Somerset County (1995), Kelley v. LaForce (2002)
38 federal appellate · 23 district · 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
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Mapp v. 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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if what the policeman knew prior to the arrest is genuinely in dispute, and if a reasonable officer's perception of probable cause would differ depending on the correct version, that factual dispute must be resolved by a fact finder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Seeking an arrest warrant is 'objectively reasonable' so long as the presence of probable cause is at least arguable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`we doubt the Supreme Court intended this dispute to be resolved from the bench by fiat.'”
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.