Golden v. Anders’s Empirical Analysis
324 F.3d 650 · 2003
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
March 2017
most recently cited
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Graham v. Connor · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Johnson v. Glick · Penson v. Ohio · Lee v. Texas
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ubstantive due process is concerned with violations of personal rights ... so severe ... so 'disproportionate to the need presented, and ... so inspired by malice or sadism rather than a merely careless or unwise excess of zeal that it amounted to brutal and inhumane abuse of official power literally shocking to the conscience.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in rapidly evolving, fluid, and dangerous situations which preclude the luxury of calm and reflective deliberation, a state actor's action will shock the conscience only if the actor intended to cause harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was in neither a high-speed chase nor an exchange of gunfire,”
1 later decision 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.