Fikes v. Cleghorn’s Empirical Analysis
47 F.3d 1011 · 1995
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Thomson v. Salt Lake County (2009), Amarel
50 federal appellate · 3 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 · Tennessee v. Garner · Marco Defunis et al. v. Charles Odegaard, President of the University of Washington. · James v. Arizona · Oviatt Waugh v. Pearce Oviatt Waugh
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fairly and adequately cover[ed] the issues presented, correctly state[d] the law, and [were] not misleading.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is reasonable under the Fourth amendment if it would seem justified to a reasonable police officer in light of the surrounding circumstances, the use of”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This instruction complies with [Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989),] by focusing on the totality of the circumstances. Fikes was free to argue the three factors [mentioned specifically in Graham] as well as others to the jury.”
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.