Wertish v. Krueger’s Empirical Analysis
433 F.3d 1062 · 2006
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 13 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Deville v. Marcantel (2009), Chambers v. Pennycook (2011)
32 federal appellate · 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Graham v. Connor · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Foster v. Metropolitan Airports Commission
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evaluate[s] the objective reasonableness of the use of force by looking at the particular circumstances of each case, including 'the severity of the crime at issue, whether the suspect pose[d] an immediate threat to the safety of the officer or others, and whether he [wa]s actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen a suspect is passively resistant somewhat more force may reasonably be required.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“less-than-permanent aggravation of a prior shoulder condition were de minimis injuries”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.