Wate v. Kubler’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.3d 1012 · 2016
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pearson v. Callahan · Scott v. Harris
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.
“Construing the evidence in favor of Plaintiff, the unambiguous facts are that [he] was no longer resisting at least after the first two tasings, and that [the officer's] further use of the [t]aser was wholly unnecessary and grossly disproportionate to the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“constituted unconstitutional excessive force spans ... just before the first activation ... through ... the time of the [final] [t]aser deployment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The critical time period for purposes of determining whether”
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.