Furnace v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
705 F.3d 1021 · 2013
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Booker v. South Carolina Department of Corrections (2017), George v. Edholm (2014)
5 federal appellate · 2 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary judgment is appropriate only if, taking the evidence and all reasonable inferences drawn therefrom in the light most favorable to the non-moving party, there are no genuine issues of material fact and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that a significant amount of force was employed without significant provocation from [the plaintiff] or warning from the officers”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoard v. Hartman
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.