Rivera v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
979 F.2d 259 · 1992
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 73 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Alexis v. McDonald's Restaurants of Massachusetts, Inc. (1995), Cox III v. Hainey (2004)
28 federal appellate · 73 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Illinois v. Gates · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Wong Sun v. United States
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the facts and circumstances within the [police officers' ] knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information were sufficient to warrant a prudent [person] in believing that the [defendant] had committed - 10 - or was committing an offense.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“qualified immunity standard 'gives ample room for mistaken judgments' by protecting 'all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The law provides immunity for such reasonable errors because 'officials should not err always on the side of caution' out of a fear of civil suit.” Rivera v. Murphy, 979 F.2d 259 , 263 n. 1 (1st Cir.1992) (quoting Davis v. Scherer, 468 U.S. 183, 196 , 104 S.Ct. 3012, 3020 , 82 L.Ed.2d 139 (1984)). 6 . See Compl. at 2 (”
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.