Armstrong v. Ashley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming dismissal where plaintiff’s allegations were pleaded “in a conclusory fashion without meaningful factual content”
• affirming dismissal where plaintiff's allegations were pleaded “in a conclusory fashion without meaningful factual content’
• upholding dismissal of Monell claim against a district attorney where plaintiff listed only nine cases over a 24-year period as examples of the district attorney's Brady violations
• recognizing the overruling of Castellano
• “litigants may bring a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claim under § 1983”
• “[Thompson] overrul[ed] our precedent in Castellano.”

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Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Johnson v. Harris County
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-10-12· cited 61×
• Guerra v. Castillo
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-09-07· cited 56×
• Verastique v. City of Dallas
  Fifth Circuit· 2024-07-08· cited 21×
• Santander v. Salazar
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-04-04· cited 16×
• Bevill v. Wheeler
  Fifth Circuit· 2024-05-30· cited 3×
• Anderson v. Estrada
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-06-13· cited 3×
• Perdomo v. City of League City, TX
  Fifth Circuit· 2026-01-07
• Davis v. Warren
  Fifth Circuit· 2026-04-21

Cites

44 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ashcroft v. Iqbal
  Supreme Court· 2009-05-18· cited 149,772×
• Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
  Supreme Court· 2007-05-21· cited 146,720×
• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Graham v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 16,485×
• Connick v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 2011-03-29· cited 4,276×
• California v. Trombetta
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-11· cited 3,405×
• Arizona v. Youngblood
  Supreme Court· 1989-01-23· cited 3,366×
• Buckley v. Fitzsimmons
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 2,450×
• Briscoe v. LaHue
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-07· cited 2,053×
• Rehberg v. Paulk
  Supreme Court· 2012-04-02· cited 808×
• Thompson v. Clark
  Supreme Court· 2022-04-04· cited 766×
• Morgan v. Swanson
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-09-27· cited 606×
• Natasha Whitley v. John Hanna
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-08-08· cited 568×
• John Russell Webster, Cross-Appellants v. The City of Houston, Cross-Appellee
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-08-09· cited 515×
• Larry Jerome Brooks v. City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina M.N. Barker, Individually and as a City Police Officer
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-06-03· cited 456×
• White v. Monsanto Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1991-10-11· cited 451×
• Gentilello v. Rege
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-12-01· cited 435×
• Burge v. Parish of St. Tammany
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-08-25· cited 428×
• Maria Pena v. City of Rio Grande City, Texa
  Fifth Circuit· 2018-01-12· cited 419×

Other cases named Armstrong v. Ashley

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Armstrong v. Ashley
  Supreme Court· 1907-01-21· cited 41×
• Armstrong v. Ashley
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-03-11· cited 19×