Parks v. Pomeroy’s Empirical Analysis
387 F.3d 949 · 2004
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · 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.
“—not whether plaintiff may be able to establish a constitutional violation' — -but, rather, whether [he] may be able to establish a violation of a constitutional right of which the contours were so defined at the time of the [spraying] that a reasonable officer in [Hutchinson’s] position would have understood that what he was doing violated the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“hazy border between excessive and acceptable force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swearingen v. Judd
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.