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← 708 FAPPX 846 - Maria Kulpa v. John Cantea

Maria Kulpa v. John Cantea’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
April 2024
most recently cited

Relationships

Relies on Graham v. Connor · Pearson v. Callahan · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[c]reating asphyxiating conditions by putting substantial or significant pressure, such as body weight, on the back of an incapacitated and bound suspect constitutes objectively unreasonable excessive force.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “a pretrial detainee must show only that the force purposely or knowingly used against him was objectively unreasonable.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “that [their] conduct was unlawful in the situation [they] confronted.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.