Cousin v. Small’s Empirical Analysis
325 F.3d 627 · 2003
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Hathaway v. Bazany (2007), Estate of Davis ex rel. McCully v. City of North Richland Hills (2005)
20 federal appellate · 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Imbler v. Pachtman · Chambers v. Mississippi · Stump v. Sparkman · Briscoe v. W
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once the [defendants] assert[ ] [qualified immunity], the burden shifts to the plaintiff to rebut it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The interview was intended to secure evidence that would be used in the presentation of the state’s case at the pending trial of an already identified suspect, not to identify a suspect or establish probable cause.”); Lomaz v. Hennosy, 151 F.3d 493 , 499 (6th Cir.1998) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. al-Kidd v. Ashcroft“To satisfy the deliberate indifference prong, a plaintiff usually must demonstrate a pattern of violations and that the inadequacy of the training is `obvious and obviously likely to result in a constitutional violation.'”
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.