Howell v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.3d 892 · 2017
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Hope v. Pelzer · 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a limited set of circumstances in which handcuffs are appropriate without converting a Terry stop into a full arrest.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'officer safety and the possibility of the presence of a weapon.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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 majoritye.g. Leiser v. Kloth
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.