Barrett v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
64 F.2d 148 · 1933
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2008
7 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on McHenry v. United States · Grau v. Forge · State v. Dierberger · Castle v. Lewis · Firestone v. Rice
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to use such force as they then had reasonable cause to believe, and in exercise of their sound discretion they did honestly believe, was necessary to make the arrest, but in included the right to use no more, and the use of any greater force was beyond the scope of their authority, unauthorized, and without justification. Here, too, the measure of necessary force is that which an ordinarily prudent and intelligent person, with the knowledge and in the situation of the arresting officer, would have deemed necessary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he officer has a right to act with reference to the facts as they then appear to him, provided only that he acts in good faith. In other words, if the officer has reason to believe that the person he is about to arrest is [dangerous] and acts accordingly, the officer is not to be convicted of assault because it subsequently develops that he was mistaken.”
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.