Checki v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
785 F.2d 534 · 1986
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably County of Sacramento v. Lewis (1998), Johnson v. Morel (1989)
43 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1406 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Wilson v. Garcia · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio · Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · Leroy v. Great Western United Corp. · Chardon v. Fumero Soto
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It cannot be reasonably argued that no serious physical danger confronts civilians who are forced to travel at speeds over 100 mph in their attempt to flee a terrorizing police officer. Furthermore, there is no valid reason for insisting on physical injury before a section 1983 claim can be stated in this context. A police officer who terrorizes a civilian by brandishing a cocked gun in front of that civilian’s face may not cause physical injury, but he has certainly laid the building blocks for a section 1983 claim against him.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“when a citizen suffers or is seriously threatened with physical injury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n the unusual case in which it is not clear that the claim arose in only one specific district, a plaintiff may choose between those two (or conceivably even more) districts that with approximately equal plausibility--in terms of the availability of witnesses, the accessibility of other relevant evidence, and the convenience of the defendant (but not of the plaintiff)--may be assigned as the locus of the claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.