Edwards v. Giles’s Empirical Analysis
51 F.3d 155 · 1995
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Lennon v. Miller (1995), Robinson v. Solano County (2002)
13 federal appellate · 5 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 · California v. Hodari D. · Cole v. Bone · Reed Je v. Woodruff County Arkansas
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do not give the slightest hint about the amount of force the officer[s] used or why the amount of force was unreasonable in light of [his] persistent efforts to [resist] the police.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Awnings v. Fullerton“abstract assertions [that] tell us nothing more than that one officer used some physical power to move [the plaintiff to the ground”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Awnings v. Fullerton“objectively reasonable in the circumstances”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lennon v. Miller
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.