Burchett’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Thacker, Wysong v. City of Heath (2008)
1 district · 4 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. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Terry v. Ohio · Harlow v. Fitzgerald
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'must avoid substituting [their] personal notions of proper police procedure for the instantaneous decision of the officer at the scene' "); Burchett v. Kiefer, 310 F.3d 937, 944 (6th Cir.2002) (holding that the objective-reasonableness standard "contains a built-in measure of deference to the officer's on-the-spot judgment about the level of force necessary in light of the circumstances of the particular case”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, the court must determine whether, based upon the applicable law, the facts viewed in the light most favorable to the plaintiff[ ] show that a constitutional violation has occurred. If the court finds a constitutional violation, it must then consider whether the violation involves clearly established constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The officers here did not ignore any plea that the handcuffs were too tight. To the contrary, [the plaintiff] complained only once, and on that occasion, [the officer] immediately offered to remove the handcuffs if [he] would behave ... [the officer’s] prompt response when [he] finally did complain distinguishes this case from those in which we have found constitutional violations. Until they had notice that the handcuffs were too tight, the officers were unaware of the problem. Once [the plaintiff] gave them notice, they immediately acted. Their actions handcuffing [the plaintiff] did not violate [his] constitutional rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meadows v. Thomas
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.