Mendoza v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
27 F.3d 1357 · 1994
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Alexandra White Joseph Deringer Richard Graham v. Russell Lee Lynn Tamiyasu-Lee Lavera Gillespie Paul Smith Robert Zurowski John Phillips Elizabeth Julian (2000), Richard Leo Deorle v. Greg Rutherford Mick Grey County of Butte (2001)
82 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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))
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Tennessee v. Garner · Davis v. Scherer
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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no particularized case law is necessary for a deputy to know that excessive force has been used when a deputy sics a canine on a handcuffed arrestee who has fully surrendered and is completely under control.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that [at the time the action is taken] a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in light of clearly established principles governing the conduct in question, the officer objectively could have believed that his conduct was lawful”
9 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.