Danley v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
540 F.3d 1298 · 2008
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Randall v. Scott (2010), Thomas v. Bryant (2010)
8 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Hope v. Pelzer
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen jailers continue to use substantial force against a prisoner who has clearly stopped resisting -whether because he has decided to become compliant, he has been subdued, or he is otherwise incapacitated-that use of force is excessive.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once a prisoner has stopped resisting there is no longer a need for force, so the use of force thereafter is disproportionate to the need.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“general legal principles announced by our decisions in this area of law are enough to make the right violated clearly established”
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.