Griffith v. Coburn’s Empirical Analysis
473 F.3d 650 · 2007
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Morelli v. Webster (2009), Martin v. City of Broadview Heights (2013)
13 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor · 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“leaning back but resisting only passively by 'tr[ying] to put his arm behind his back and ... refusing to help' or cooperate in any way with the officers' commands.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“almost immediately and without provocation”
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.