Bublitz v. Cottey’s Empirical Analysis
327 F.3d 485 · 2003
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Steen v. Myers (2007), Belcher v. Norton (2007)
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Estelle v. Gamble · Graham v. Connor · Wolff v. McDonnell · Daniels v. Williams · Paul v. Davis
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Supreme Court has stated that “a Fourth Amendment seizure does not occur whenever there is a governmentally caused termination of an individual’s freedom of movement (the innocent passerby), nor even whenever there is a governmentally caused and governmen-tally desired termination of an individual’s freedom of movement (the fleeing felon), but only when there is governmental termination of freedom of move ment through means intentionally applied.” County of Sacramento v. Lewis, 523 U.S. 833, 844 , 118 S.Ct. 1708 , 140 L.Ed.2d 1043 (1998) (quoting Brower v. County of Inyo, 489 U.S. 593, 596-97 , 109 S.Ct. 1378 , 103 L.Ed.2d 628 (1989) (emphasis in original)). In light of Lewis , this Court has emphasized the distinction between “an accidental or tortious act which happens to be committed by a governmental official and an intentional detention that rises to the level of a constitutional violation.” Campbell v. White, 916 F.2d 421, 422-23 (7th Cir.1990) (citation omitted). In Campbell , we held, consistent with the rule of Brower and Lewis , that an officer’s action in accidentally running over a fleeing suspect did not constitute a seizure, as the officer’s action was not the “the means intentionally applied to effect the stop, but was rather an unfortunate and regrettable accident.” Id. at 423 (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“conduct [is] intended to injure in some way unjustifiable by any government interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steen v. Myers“the sine qua non . . . is a purpose to cause harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steen v. Myers
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.