Ramirez v. Knoulton’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.3d 124 · 2008
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Lytle v. Bexar County (2009), Carnaby v. City of Houston (2011)
15 federal appellate ·
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 Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Tennessee v. Garner · United States v. Sharpe · Ballard v. Burton
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“brought his hands together in front of his waist.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cole v. Carson · Cole v. Carson“(1) injury, (2) which resulted directly and only from a use of force that was clearly excessive, and (3) the excessiveness of which was clearly unreasonable.” Deville v. Marcantel, 567 F.3d 156 , 167 (5th Cir. 2009) (per curiam) (quoting Tarver v. City of Edna, 410 F.3d 745 , 751 (5th Cir. 2005)). 11 . Accord Ramirez v. Knoulton, 542 F.3d 124 , 129-30 (5th Cir. 2008) (”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t was clearly established well before [2007] that ‘deadly force violates the Fourth Amendment unless “the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a threat of serious physical harm” ’ ... [which] must be ‘immediate.’”
3 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.