Arnott v. Mataya’s Empirical Analysis
995 F.2d 121 · 1993
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Pace v. City of Des Moines (2000), Abbott v. City of Crocker (1994)
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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 Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pierson v. Ray · Hunter v. Bryant · Michigan v.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cases are legion in this and other circuits which establish that where there are genuine issues of material fact surrounding an arrestee's conduct it is impossible for the court to determine, as a matter of law, what predicate facts exist to decide whether or not the officer's conduct clearly violated established law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“An officer has probable cause to arrest a suspect without a warrant if the “facts and circumstances within the officer’s knowledge ... are sufficient to warrant a prudent person, or one of reasonable caution, in believing, in the circumstances shown, that the suspect has committed, is committing, or is about to commit an offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“What matters in a qualified immunity inquiry is whether a reasonable officer could have believed the arrest to be lawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.