Cantu v. Rocha’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 795 · 1996
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Kinney v. Weaver (2004), Gerald Burge v. St Tammany Parish of et al. (1999)
57 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could support a finding that particular conduct occurred,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are based on an issue of law when they concern only application of established legal principles, such as whether an official's conduct was objectively reasonable in light of clearly established law, to a given . . . set of facts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]rders that resolve a fact-related dispute of 'evidence sufficiency,' i.e. which facts a party may, or may not, be able to prove at trial ... are not immediately appealable and must await final judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dorothy C. Elliott, Individually and as Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Archie Elliott, III Archie Elliott, Jr., Individually and as Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Archie Elliott, III v. Jason Leavitt, Police Officer for District Heights, Md, and Prince George's County, Maryland David B. Mitchell, Prince George's County Police Chief Wayne Cheney, Police Officer City of District Heights, Md Michael Conboy, Police Chief for District Heights, Md, Dorothy C. Elliott, Individually and as Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Archie Elliott, III Archie Elliott, Jr., Individually and as Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Archie Elliott, III v. Wayne Cheney, Police Officer, and Jason Leavitt, Police Officer for District Heights, Md Prince George's County, Maryland David B. Mitchell, Prince George's County Police Chief City of District Heights, Md Michael Conboy, Police Chief for District Heights, Md · Elliott III
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.