David Greene and Starna Hill v. William B. Reeves, A/K/A Brad Reeves (95-5586) Robert G. Stephens (95-5644) Thomas J. Smith, III (95-5643)

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the issuance of an arrest warrant by a state judge serves as a factor in an objective reasonableness inquiry
• finding that “[i]f it was reasonable to obtain a search warrant, it had to be equally reasonable to obtain the arrest warrant”
• calling the district court’s distinction between probable cause for a search and an arrest “troublesome” because even though the two determinations “contain different inquiries,” they “are measured by similar objective standards”
• “Hunter established that the determination of whether qualified immunity applies to an officer’s judgment as to probable cause is one for the court, not the jury, to make”
• qualified immunity granted in favor of officers where probable cause was a close question

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).