Saman v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
173 F.3d 1150 · 1999
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Arpin v. Santa Clara Valley Transportation Agency (2001), Howard v. Everex Systems, Inc. (2000)
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Hughes v. Rowe · Cone v. West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co. · Johnson v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Wolkowitz v. Shearson Lehman Bros.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The plaintiff]'s battery claim must fail along with his § 1983 claim because we hold that no reasonable jury could have found that [the officer's] actions were objectively unreasonable under the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 50(b) is to be strictly observed, and that failure to comply with it precludes a later challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must object to the form of special interrogatories in the trial court in order to preserve the issue for review on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.