Clem v. Corbeau’s Empirical Analysis
284 F.3d 543 · 2002
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Henry v. Purnell (2011), Jones v. Buchanan (2003)
22 federal appellate · 7 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 Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Bell v. Wolfish · Duncan v. Walker
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`specific context of the case' — that is, [whether] it was `clear to a reasonable officer' that the conduct in which he allegedly engaged `was unlawful in the situation he confronted.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gayle W. Figg, Personally and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Thomas Allen Figg, Deceased Robert L. Figg, III John Stuart Figg Martha Figg Williams Wayne Attanasio v. John A. Schroeder, Sergeant Michael J. Anthony, Sergeant, and Thomas C. Land, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff's Deputy John Does, 1-10, Consisting of Several Unidentified Hanover County Sheriff's Deputies, Individually and in Their Official Capacities as Sheriff's Deputies Winston R. Robertson Douglas R. Hines v. Stuart Cook, Individually and as Sheriff, Hanover County, Gayle W. Figg, Personally and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Thomas Allen Figg, Deceased Robert L. Figg, III John Stuart Figg Martha Figg Williams Wayne Attanasio v. John A. Schroeder, Sergeant Michael J. Anthony, Sergeant, and Thomas C. Land, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff's Deputy John Does, 1-10, Consisting of Several Unidentified Hanover County Sheriff's Deputies, Individually and in Their Official Capacities as Sheriff's Deputies Winston R. Robertson Douglas R. Hines v. Stuart Cook, Individually and as Sheriff, Hanover County, Gayle W. Figg, Personally and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Thomas Allen Figg, Deceased Robert L. Figg, III John Stuart Figg Martha Figg Williams Wayne Attanasio v. John A. Schroeder, Sergeant Michael J. Anthony, Sergeant Thomas C. Land, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff's Deputy John Does, 1-10, Consisting of Several Unidentified Hanover County Sheriff's Deputies, Individually and in Their Official Capacities as Sheriff's Deputies Winston R. Robertson Douglas R. Hines v. Stuart Cook, Individually and as Sheriff, Hanover County · Figg III“[i]n recent years, we have twice confronted situations in which a plaintiff, subjected to police force, had committed no crime; in each, we held that the plaintiff had stated a claim for violation of his constitutional right to be free from excessive police force.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he next, sequential step is to ask whether the right was clearly established”
2 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.