Qualls v. Parrish’s Empirical Analysis
534 F.2d 690 · 1976
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 1995
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Monroe v. Pape · Adams v. Williams · Pierson v. Ray
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“he has reasonable grounds to believe that the person he is attempting to arrest has committed a felony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We begin our analysis by observing that federal, not state, law applies and determines the adequacy of defenses asserted in a civil rights action____ Accordingly, although we are not bound by a state law privilege available to a police officer, nevertheless, ... “[W]e still are by no means free to elevate whatever view of the privilege we think to be preferable to the constitutional level envisaged by § 1983.” ... If we were writing on a blank slate, we would adopt the rule that Judge Oakes proposed in [Jones v. Mar shall]____ It would limit the privilege [of police use of deadly force] to the situation where the crime involved causes or threatens death or serious bodily harm, or where there is a substantial risk that the person to be arrested will cause death or serious bodily harm if his apprehension is delayed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court ... determined that the Sheriff of Decatur County ... did not violate plaintiffs’ civil rights when, after a high-speed automobile chase, one of the deputies shot at plaintiff Bunch’s automobile and killed Trull, plaintiff Quail’s decedent. The district court, on alternative grounds, determined that defendants lawfully employed deadly force in order to apprehend plaintiffs.”
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.