Elder’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
June 1994
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Payton v. New York · Carnegie v. United States · Scharffe v. Perkins · United States v. Johnson · Schweiker v. Chilicky
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“principle [on which plaintiff rested his case] was clearly established at the time of Elder's arrest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Elder · Elder v. Holloway
How this case has been treated — in progress
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