Godbolt v. Brawley’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2014
6 federal appellate · 10 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
Relies on Selected Risks Insurance v. Dean · Eagle, Star & British Dominions Insurance v. Heller · Smith v. New Dixie Lines, Inc. · Aetna Casualty & Surety Company v. Anderson · Miller v. Bennett
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`a judgment of conviction or acquittal in a criminal prosecution does not establish in a subsequent civil action the truth of the facts on which it was rendered ... and such judgment of conviction or acquittal is not admissible in evidence.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[t]he test is: in what capacity was the officer acting at the time he committed the acts for which the complaint is made? If he is engaged in the performance of a public duty such as the enforcement of the general laws, his employer incurs no vicarious liability for his acts, even though the employer directed him to perform the duty. On the other hand, if he was engaged in the protection of the employer's property, ejecting trespassers or enforcing rules and regulations promulgated by the employer, it becomes a jury question as to whether he was acting as a public officer or as an agent, servant, or employee."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may have intentionally engaged in assaultive behavior, he did not engage in the use of deadly force and did not consent to its use.”
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.