Mead v. O'CONNOR’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably State v. Manus (1979), State v. Hargrove (1970)
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 27 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 Colbert v. Journal Publishing Co. · Faubion v. Tucker · State v. Perkins · State v. Kile · Padilla v. Chavez
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The officer is] entitled to use such force as was reasonably necessary under all the circumstances of the case. Officers, within reasonable limits, are judges of the force necessary to enable them to make arrests or to preserve the peace. When acting in good faith, the courts will afford them the utmost protection, and they will recognize the fact that emergencies arise when the officer cannot be expected to exercise that cool and deliberate judgment which courts and juries exercise afterwards upon investigations in court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Manus · State v. Gonzales
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.