Morales v. Chadbourne’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 8 U.S.C. § 1357 (§ 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Terry v. Ohio · Harlow v. Fitzgerald
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only fact that the state had in deciding whether to detain Ms. Morales was that she was born in another country. Certainly, that single factor is insufficient to warrant a prudent person to believe that she was in this country illegally ... [because] there are over 17 million United States citizens that were born in another country.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a finding of probable cause would require specific 'facts and circumstances sufficient to warrant a prudent [person] in believing' that [Mr. Creedle] was a non-citizen who was subject to detention and removal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Using [ ] nation of birth as a sole permissible basis for [ ] loss of liberty does not pass constitutional muster.”
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.