Crummer Co. v. Ball du Pont

How courts have described this case

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

• “[I]t is not the rule that [police] must investigate a defendant’s legal defenses prior to making an arrest.”
• “The officer may not ignore information which becomes available in the course of routine investigations.”
• officers may not ignore exculpatory facts that tend to negate an element of an offense
• the existence of probable cause in a § 1983 action is a question for the court when there is only one reasonable determination possible
• “In order for a wrongful arrest claim to succeed under § 1983, a plaintiff must prove that the police lacked probable cause.”
• “[I]t is not the rule that [police] must investigate a defendant’s legal defenses prior to making an arrest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).