Canen v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.3d 407 · 2017
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Kyles v. Whitley · Briscoe v. W · Ashcroft v. al-Kidd · Ashcroft v. al-Kidd
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“show either a reasonably analogous case that has both articulated the right at issue and applied it to a factual circumstance similar to the one at hand or that the violation was so obvious that a reasonable person necessarily would have recognized it as a violation of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the inquiry is aimed at determining whether a reasonable person in the officer's position would have understood his actions to be against the law at the time he acted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his requirement does not mean that a plaintiff must be able to point to a case 'on all fours' with the defendant officer's alleged misconduct.”
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.