Johnson v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
576 F.3d 658 · 2009
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Thomson v. Salt Lake County (2009), Abbott v. Sangamon County (2013)
9 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.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Priester v. City of Riviera Beach · Vathekan v. Prince George's County · Sound of Music Co. v. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. · Anthony H. Dye v. William B. Wargo, Jr., K-9 Named Frei, and City of Elkhart, Indiana
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it could not have been more than one second between [the suspect's] surrender and the use of force by [the officer].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“subdued and complying with the officer's orders,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“used every method at his disposal to flee”
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.