Rodriguez v. Farrell’s Empirical Analysis
280 F.3d 1341 · 2002
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Lee v. Ferraro (2002), Kopec v. Tate (2004)
50 federal appellate · 3 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 Graham v. Connor · Gerstein v. Pugh · Baker v. McCollan · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al.
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Painful handcuffing, without more, is not excessive force in cases where the resulting injuries are minimal.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. E.W. v. Dolgos · Sebastian v. Ortiz“grabb[ing] [an individual's] arm, twist[ing] it around [the individual's] back, jerking it up high to the shoulder and then handcuff[ing the individual]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a relatively common and ordinarily accepted non-excessive way to detain an arrestee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.