Pace v. Capobianco’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

43 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions

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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “an affidavit stating only that the affiant ‘believes’ a certain fact exists is insufficient to defeat summary judgment by creating a genuine issue of fact about the existence of that certain fact”); see also Mize v. Jefferson City Bd. of Educ., 93 F.3d 739, 742 (11th Cir.1996) (”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. May v. A Parcel of Land · Wyant v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad

2. “used the automobile in a manner to give reasonable policemen probable cause to believe that it had become a deadly weapon with which [suspect] was armed”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Waterman v. Batton · Harris v. Coweta County

3. “[T]he use of deadly force is more likely reasonable if: the suspect poses an immediate threat of serious physical harm to officers or others; the suspect committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious harm, such that his being at large represents an inherent risk to the general public; and the officers either issued a warning or could not feasibly have done so before using deadly force. But ... none of these conditions are prerequisites to the lawful application of deadly force by an officer seizing a suspect.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 302 F. Supp. 2d 1373 - Pablo Hernandez v. City of Miami · 903 F. Supp. 2d 1228 - McElroy v. City of Birmingham