Mann v. Yarnell’s Empirical Analysis
497 F.3d 822 · 2007
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably McKenney v. Harrison (2011), Howard v. Kansas City Police Department (2009)
22 federal appellate · 6 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. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Graham v. Connor · Tennessee v. Garner · City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle · Gregory v. City of Rogers
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient probative evidence [that] would permit a finding in [his] favor on more than mere speculation [or] conjecture.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The officers at the scene had been told that Mann was in a paranoid, belligerent, drug-crazed state and intended to do violence to the police if and when they should attempt to arrest him. They also knew that Mann had fired a gun at pursuing officers to escape apprehension and had allegedly assaulted his wife. We conclude that, with this information in mind, a reasonable officer would approach the situation with heightened caution and would be primed to quickly apply appropriate force in response to any appearance of resistance or aggression.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Circumstances relevant to the reasonableness of the officer's conduct include 'the severity of the crime at issue, whether the suspect poses an immediate threat to the safety of the officers or others, and whether he is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight.' " Howard v. Kansas City Police Dept. , 570 F.3d 984 , 989 (8th Cir. 2009) (quoting Graham , 490 U.S. at 396 , 109 S.Ct. 1865 ). The court may also consider "the extent of the suspect's injuries”
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.