Colston v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
130 F.3d 96 · 1997
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Judith Bazan Victoria Rose Bazan Rose Marie Avalos v. Hidalgo County et al., Glenn v. City of Tyler (2001)
31 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Southern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n light of the totality of the circumstances facing [the officer]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“violation of a clearly established constitutional right”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In Graham v: Connor the Supreme Court explained that the reasonableness inquiry in an excessive force case is an objective one; evaluating the officer’s conduct under the Fourth Amendment we must balance the amount of force used against the need for that force with reference to clearly established law at the time of the conduct in question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Colston v. Barnhart
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.