Bella v. Chamberlain’s Empirical Analysis
24 F.3d 1251 · 1994
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 23 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Allen v. Muskogee (1997), Ernest Medina v. Michael Cram - Ralph Bruning City of Colorado Springs Loren Kramer (2001)
37 federal appellate · 23 district · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 294
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Tennessee v. Garner
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we have never upheld an excessive force claim without some evidence of physical injury”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Obviously, events immediately connected with the actual seizure are taken into account in determining whether the seizure is reasonable.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
3 later decisions 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.