Adams v. Speers’s Empirical Analysis
473 F.3d 989 · 2007
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Mullenix v. Luna (2015), Lytle v. Bexar County (2009)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Tennessee v. Garner · Brosseau v. Haugen · Williams v. Texas
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accepting [plaintiff's] facts as true, this case falls within the obvious”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a completely clear background for discharging his weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cutting off any possible avenue of escape.”
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.