Phillips v. James’s Empirical Analysis
422 F.3d 1075 · 2005
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Van Deelen v. Johnson (2007), Thomson v. Salt Lake County (2009)
15 federal appellate · 9 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Malley v. Briggs · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Florida v. Bostick
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff must first establish that “the facts alleged [taken in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party] show the officer’s conduct violated a constitutional right.” Saucier v. Katz, 533 U.S. 194 , 201, 121 S.Ct. 2151 , 150 L.Ed.2d 272 (2001); Medina, 252 F.3d at 1128 . Second, Plaintiff must demonstrate that the right was “clearly established.” Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The use of deadly force is justified under the Fourth Amendment if a reasonable officer in the Defendant's position would have had probable cause to believe that there was a threat of serious physical harm to themselves or to others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n officer's use of force must be reasonable, which is measured from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene.'') (internal quotations and citation omitted); Estate of Larsen, 511 F.3d at 1260 (emphasis in original) (”
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.