79 F. Supp. 2d 1104 - Owl v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · City of Canton v. Harris · Tennessee v. Garner
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the shooting was truly accidental, then there was no violation of Owl's Fourth Amendment rights since the act of drawing the weapon and the act of forcing Owl to the ground were not ... excessive under the Fourth Amendment.... This is because the Fourth Amendment protects citizens against willful shootings and not accidental, but otherwise reasonable, ones.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Conner v. Rodriguez · Ronnie McCoy“Graham, 490 U.S. at 396, 109 S.Ct. 1865.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ronnie McCoy
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.