White v. Pierce County’s Empirical Analysis
797 F.2d 812 · 1986
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Myers v. Morris (1987), Scott v. Henrich (1994)
81 federal appellate · 4 district · 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Payton v. New York · Vandygriff v. Phillips
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reasonableness of force is analyzed in light of such factors as the requirements for the officer's safety, the motivation for the arrest, and the extent of the injury inflicted.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brozik v. Kalish · Meyers v. Nagel“[t]he use of excessive force by police officers in an arrest violates the arrestee's Fourth Amendment right to be free from an unreasonable seizure.”
4 later decisions 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.