Collier v. Montgomery’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.3d 214 · 2009
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Poole v. City of Shreveport (2012), Hanks v. Rogers (2017)
16 federal appellate · 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Graham v. Connor · Pearson v. Callahan · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his court reviews a district court's denial of a motion for summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity in a § 1983 suit de novo.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The video evidence shows that Collier physically resisted when Harris attempted to place handcuffs on him. Harris grappled with Collier for several seconds and was able to subdue Collier after pushing him onto the hood of the cruiser. Harris’s use of force and the resulting bruises were not excessive under the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is an affirmative defense; once properly raised by the defendant, the 'plaintiff has the burden to negate the assertion of qualified immunity.'”
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.