Ronnie McCoy’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2023
5 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 Terry v. Ohio · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Graham v. Connor · Daniels v. Williams · 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must assess the actions of each officer 'from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, including what the officer knew at the time, not with the 20/20 vision of hindsight.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be judged from the viewpoint of a reasonable officer on the scene, irrespective of the officer's underlying intent or motivation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“accidental effects of otherwise lawful government conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCoy
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.