Morelli v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
552 F.3d 12 · 2009
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 42 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Raiche v. Pietroski (2010), Guillemard-Ginorio v. Contreras-Gómez (2009)
30 federal appellate · 42 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Graham v. Connor · Carroll v. United States · Malley v. Briggs · Whren v. United States
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the record reflects no genuine issue as to any material fact and indicates that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable officer should have known that his actions were unlawful.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence of either dangerousness or attempted flight”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kelsay v. Ernst · Heredia v. Roscoe
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.