Castle v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
254 F. 917 · 1918
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2002
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Royall · Ex parte Siebold · In re Neagle · Boardman v. Toffey · Ohio v. Thomas
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to use such force as they then had reasonable cause to believe, and in exercise of their sound discretion they did honestly believe, was necessary to make the arrest, but in included the right to use no more, and the use of any greater force was beyond the scope of their authority, unauthorized, and without justification. Here, too, the measure of necessary force is that which an ordinarily prudent and intelligent person, with the knowledge and in the situation of the arresting officer, would have deemed necessary.”
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.