Weyel v. Catania’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably State v. Smith (2002), Wallerstein v. Stew Leonard's Dairy (2001)
31 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Graham v. Connor · Bell v. Wolfish · Blum v. Stenson · Farrar v. Hobby
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defense of qualified immunity shields government officials from civil liability if the official's conduct did not violate constitutional rights that were clearly established at the pertinent time or if it was objectively reasonable for the official to believe that the conduct did not violate such rights. . . . As a general rule, police officers are entitled to qualified immunity if (1) their conduct does not violate clearly established constitutional rights, or (2) it was objectively reasonable for them to believe their acts did not violate those rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A motion to disqualify a judicial officer because of the claimed possibility of bias is a serious matter. If counsel makes such a motion, it is not asking too much to require that he or she follow the established rules that treat it as such.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“1. the severity of the crime at issue; 2. whether the suspect poses an immediate threat to the safety of the officer or others; and 3. whether the suspect is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. D'Ambra v. Maikshilo
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.