Bledsoe v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis
742 F.2d 1237 · 1984
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Moore v. Marketplace Restaurant, Inc. (1985), Phillips v. Calhoun (1992)
72 federal appellate · 5 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 10 U.S.C. § 856 · 18 U.S.C. § 1 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · Wood v. Strickland · Briscoe v. W
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the means employed by the actor for the purpose of effecting the arrest or recapture of another, or of maintaining the actor’s custody of him, are in excess of those which he is privileged to use, (a) the actor is liable for only so much of the force as is excessive; (b) the other’s liability for the use of any unprivileged force against the actor is not thereby affected; (c) the other has the privilege stated in §§ 63-75 to defend himself against such excessive force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peña v. Greffet“the resistance [to officers] and the possibility of flight justified the immediate actions taken to apprehend [the defendant] ... on the basis of exigent circumstances”
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.