Abbott v. Sangamon County’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

39 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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

1. “so egregious and unreasonable that ... no reasonable [official] could have thought he was acting lawfully.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Reed v. Palmer · Lovett v. Herbert

2. “It was clearly established on [the date of the incident] that it is unlawful to deploy a taser in dart mode against a nonviolent misdemeanant who had just been tased in dart mode and made no movement when, after the first tasing, the officer instructed her to turn over. Prior to 2007, it was well-established in this circuit that police officers could not use significant force on nonresisting or passively resisting suspects.... [I]t was well-established in 2007 that police officers cannot continue to use force once a suspect is subdued.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Strand v. Minchuk · Dockery v. Blackburn

3. “[P]robable cause for an arrest exists 'if the totality of the facts and circumstances known to the officer at the time of the arrest would warrant a reasonable, prudent person in believing that the arrestee had committed, was committing, or was about to commit a crime.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tenorio v. Harris · Williams v. City of Chi.