Acosta’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Elliot Katz, Neftali Monzon v. City of Murrieta (2020)
10 district · 1 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
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Johnson v. Jones · City of Los Angeles v. Heller · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the basis of the evidence presented at trial, the jury could have reasonably concluded that a reasonable officer, who had positioned himself facing the driver so that he was standing closer to the side than the dead-center of the car, would have recognized that he could avoid being injured when the car moved slowly, by simply stepping to the side. In short, a juror could have reasonably reached the conclusion at which the jury appears to have arrived: that the car did move prior to [the officer’s] shooting [the plaintiff] but that it was moving or rolling sufficiently slowly that a reasonable officer in [the officer’s] position would not have perceived himself to be in danger of serious bodily harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mere suspicion, common rumor, or even strong reason to suspect are not enough to constitute probable cause for arrest.... Probable cause exists where the facts and circumstances within the officers’ knowledge and which the officers have reasonably trustworthy information are sufficient in themselves to warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that an offense has been or is being committed by the person who is placed under arrest.... The burden is on the defendant to prove by a preponderance of the evidence ... that the warrantless arrest was reasonable and, hence, legal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]espite the difficulty in applying qualified immunity, one thing is certain and, for the purposes of this case, dispositive. That is, where essential historical facts concerning what an official knew or did are in dispute, 'it is clear that these are questions of fact for the jury to determine.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Cannon
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.