Stansbury v. Wertman

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that officer had probable cause to effect arrest where, inter alia, arrestee had “previous arrest for a similar crime”
• holding that probable cause to arrest is “an absolute defense to a false arrest claim”
• concluding that the use of a single photo array was unduly suggestive and akin to a single suspect show-up
• holding that probable cause to arrest is “an absolute defense to a false arrest claim”
• noting that a court may determine whether a constitutional violation is adequately alleged before it decides whether a defendant is shielded by qualified immunity
• finding that deficiency in witness’s description, “if it was one, was overcome by other evidence, including a positive, sworn identification by the same [witness]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

32 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Figueroa v. Mazza
  Second Circuit· 2016-06-03· cited 358×
• Frost v. New York City Police Department
  Second Circuit· 2020-11-12· cited 292×
• Dufort v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2017-10-27· cited 201×
• Ashley v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2021-03-26· cited 114×
• McLennon v. City of New York
  E.D. New York· 2016-03-18· cited 97×
• Mara v. Rilling
  Second Circuit· 2019-04-09· cited 78×
• Guan v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2022-06-17· cited 65×
• Triolo v. Nassau County
  Second Circuit· 2022-01-21· cited 44×
• Friend v. Gasparino
  Second Circuit· 2023-02-27· cited 39×
• Washington v. Napolitano
  Second Circuit· 2022-03-23· cited 36×
• Weiner v. McKeefery
  E.D. New York· 2015-03-11· cited 35×
• Higginbotham v. City of New York
  S.D. New York· 2015-05-12· cited 35×
• McColley v. County of Rensselaer
  Second Circuit· 2014-01-21· cited 33×
• Soto v. City of New York
  E.D. New York· 2015-09-18· cited 33×
• Conroy v. Caron
  D. Connecticut· 2017-08-08· cited 29×
• Shabazz v. Kailer
  S.D. New York· 2016-08-12· cited 26×
• Levantino v. New York State Police
  E.D. New York· 2014-11-03· cited 21×
• Norton v. Town of Islip
  E.D. New York· 2015-03-31· cited 20×
• Heller v. Bedford Central School District
  S.D. New York· 2015-11-17· cited 20×
• Johnson v. City of Cheyenne
  Tenth Circuit· 2024-04-26· cited 18×

Cites

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

• Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-26· cited 58,760×
• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Pearson v. Callahan
  Supreme Court· 2009-01-21· cited 13,928×
• Scott v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 2007-04-30· cited 13,305×
• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Stovall v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 6,066×
• Brinegar v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-10-10· cited 6,013×
• Griffith v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1987-01-13· cited 3,380×
• Devenpeck v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 2004-12-13· cited 1,825×
• Manganiello v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2010-07-23· cited 615×
• Jenkins v. City Of New York
  Second Circuit· 2007-02-06· cited 563×
• Fabrikant v. French
  Second Circuit· 2012-08-16· cited 561×
• Robert Jaegly, Jr. v. Matthew Couch, Bernard Santandria, Paula Breen and City of Albany, Docket No. 05-2191-Cv
  Second Circuit· 2006-02-24· cited 515×
• Sylvia Panetta v. Thomas M. Crowley, Marc Jurnove, Patricia A. Kelvasa, John Doe I, Docket No. 02-7275-Cv
  Second Circuit· 2006-08-18· cited 400×
• Robert Escalera v. Glenna Lunn, Individually, Louis Crisci, Individually, Rocco A. Pozzi, Individually, and the County of Westchester, New York
  Second Circuit· 2004-03-18· cited 368×
• Caldarola v. Calabrese
  Second Circuit· 2002-07-31· cited 321×
• Golino v. City of New Haven
  Second Circuit· 1991-12-03· cited 207×
• Boyd v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2003-07-15· cited 180×
• Curley v. Village of Suffern
  Second Circuit· 2001-09-10· cited 173×
• Amore v. Novarro
  Second Circuit· 2010-06-22· cited 155×