Bauer v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
713 F.2d 408 · 1983
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Benigni v. City of Hemet (1988), Foster v. Metropolitan Airports Commission (1990)
44 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Kolender v. Lawson · Johnson v. Glick · Lee v. Texas · Brown v. Texas · Lefkowitz v. Newsome
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court must look to such factors as the need for the application of force, the relationship between the need and the amount of force that was used, the extent of injury inflicted, and whether force was applied in a good faith effort to maintain or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] law enforcement official's liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a violation of an individual's constitutional rights through the use of excessive force in completing an arrest is well established.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marilyn Mick Crissy Cochran Lauren Ashley Mick, by and Through Her Father and Next Friend Ken Mick, and Ken Mick v. Major Kim T. Brewer, Roland Neil Meyers, and City of Wichita, Scott Redpath, Special Agent, Marilyn Mick Crissy Cochran Lauren Ashley Mick, by and Through Her Father and Next Friend Ken Mick, and Ken Mick v. Major Kim T. Brewer, City of Wichita, Roland Neil Meyers, and Scott Redpath, Special Agent · Mick“'[T]he use of any force by officers simply because a suspect is argumentative, contentious, or vituperative' is not to be condoned.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Lamp · Kelsay v. Ernst
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.