Thore v. Howe’s Empirical Analysis
466 F.3d 173 · 2006
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 28 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably 43 Cal. 4th 885 - Yount v. City of Sacramento (2008), Perry v. Blum (2010)
12 federal appellate · 28 district · 6 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Heck v. Humphrey · State of New Hampshire v. State of Maine · Brosseau v. Haugen · Cleveland v. Policy Management Systems Corp.
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] § 1983 excessive force claim brought against a police officer that arises out of the officer's use of force during an arrest does not necessarily call into question the validity of an underlying state conviction . . . [,] it is not necessarily free from Heck”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here are a number of reasons why a defendant might choose to plead guilty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a doctrine which 'generally prevents a party from prevailing in one phase of a case on an argument and then relying on a contradictory argument to prevail in another phase.' Unlike the doctrine of issue preclusion, judicial estoppel does not require that the issue have been actually litigated in the prior proceeding.”
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.