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Kingsland v. City of Miami

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Abrogated
Court
Eleventh Circuit
Citation
382 F.3d 1220
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
49 of 49
Citing cases (total)
49
Treatment dates
2020
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. Abrogated in part: Williams v. Aguirre displaced Kingsland v. City of Miami's use of modern Florida tort law to define the elements of a federal malicious prosecution claim. All 49 flagged citations have been read.
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Later courts continue to cite Kingsland's separate rules on probable cause, fabricated evidence, and seizures tied to legal process. The confirmed treatment is listed below.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

49 later cases cite Kingsland v. City of Miami; 49 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Abrogated

  • The Eleventh Circuit recognized that later Supreme Court decisions require the historical common law at the time Section 1983 was enacted, superseding Kingsland's reliance on modern Florida malicious prosecution law.

    Williams v. Aguirre · Eleventh Circuit · filed

    Although we have at times looked to modern tort law when adjudicating claims of malicious prosecution under section 1983, see, e.g., Kingsland, 382 F.3d at 1234 (examining Florida’s modern approach to malicious prosecution); Uboh v. Reno, 141 F.3d 1000, 1004–05 (11th Cir. 1998) (looking to Georgia’s modern approach to the favorable-termination requirement of malicious prosecution), the Supreme Court has clarified that the relevant common-law principles are those that were “well settled at the time of [section 1983’s] enactment,” Nieves v. Bartlett, 139 S. Ct. 1715, 1726 (2019) (internal quotation marks omitted); see also Kalina v. Fletcher, 522 U.S. 118, 123 (1997) (explaining that Congress enacted section 1983 “in the light of common-law principles that were well settled at the time”).
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