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Bellotte v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

629 F.3d 415 · 2011

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
March 2025
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Illinois v. Gates · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · United States v. Leon

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “is proper only when an issue is (1) inextricably intertwined with the decision of the lower court to deny qualified immunity or (2) consideration of the additional issue is necessary to ensure meaningful review of the qualified immunity question.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “A professed concern for the suspect, grounded in little more than speculation [that he might be a suicide risk], fails to justify the ironic result of a violation of that very suspect's rights [due to officers' failure to knock and announce].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “nevertheless present quite distinct factual and legal issues at the retail level”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.