Freeman v. Gore’s Empirical Analysis
483 F.3d 404 · 2007
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Deville v. Marcantel (2009), Lytle v. Bexar County (2009)
35 federal appellate · 1 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 Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Michigan v. Summers
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court applies a two-step analysis to determine whether a defendant is entitled to summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity. First, we determine -whether, viewing the summary judgment evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, the defendant violated the plaintiffs constitutional rights.” If the evidence viewed in the light- most favorable to Appellees demonstrates that a constitutional violation ■occurred, “we next- consider whether -the defendant’s actions were objectively unreasonable in light of clearly established law at the time of the conduct in question.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“minor, incidental injuries that occur in connection with the use of handcuffs to effectuate an arrest do not give rise to a constitutional claim for excessive force.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“excessive force claim is separate and distinct from [Freeman's] unlawful arrest claim.”
2 later decisions 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.