Deville v. Marcantel’s Empirical Analysis
567 F.3d 156 · 2009
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 187 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably 134 S. Ct. 1861 - Tolan v. Cotton (2014), Tolan v. Cotton (2014)
45 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Illinois v. Gates · Graham v. Connor · City of Canton v. Harris
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 187 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“presented an 'immediate threat to the safety of the officers.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. A policy statement, ordinance, regulation, or decision that is officially adopted and promulgated by the municipality's lawmaking officers or by an official to whom the lawmakers have delegated policy-making authority; or 2. A persistent, widespread practice of city officials or employees, which, although not authorized by officially adopted and promulgated policy, is so common and well settled as to constitute a custom that fairly represents municipal policy. Actual or constructive knowledge of such custom must be attributable to the governing body of the municipality or to an official to whom that body had delegated policy-making authority.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(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) (”
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.