Gates v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 697 · 1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2016
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Graham v. Connor · Continental Casualty Co. v. UNR Industries, Inc. · United States v. Payne · Haddad v. Lockheed California Corp. · United States v. Spetz
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Character evidence is normally not admissible in a civil rights case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question to be resolved was whether, objectively, [Lloyd's] use of force had been excessive. His past conduct did not bear on this issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ponce v. Lloyd
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.