Thomas v. Dillard’s Empirical Analysis
818 F.3d 864 · 2016
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2023
4 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pearson v. Callahan · Florida v. Royer
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We therefore hold Dillard violated Thomas’ Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable seizure by detaining him for the purpose of performing a Terry frisk .... We further hold Dillard used excessive force when he tased Thomas in order to force him to submit to the Terry frisk against his consent. Given the frisk was unlawful and unnecessary, Dillard used unreasonable force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Dillard“repeatedly told courts not to define clearly established law at a high level of generality, since doing so avoids the crucial question whether the official acted reasonably in the particular circumstance that he or she faced.” (quoting Plumhoff v. Rickard, - U.S. -, 134 S.Ct. 2012 , 2023, 188 L.Ed.2d 1056 (2014))). 6 . Section 37.105 of the Texas Education Code states that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Gonzalez v. Huerta“Qualified immunity shields a police officer from suit under § 1983 unless (1) the officer violated a statutory or constitutional right, and (2) the right was clearly established at the time of the challenged conduct.”
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.