Brossart v. Janke’s Empirical Analysis
859 F.3d 616 · 2017
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Heck v. Humphrey · City of Canton v. Harris · Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown · Walker v. Armco Steel Corp.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“careful attention to the facts and circumstances of each particular case, including the severity of the crime at issue, whether the suspect poses an immediate threat to the safety of the officers or others, and whether he is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“repeated use of [a] taser against a potentially violent, defiant arrestee was not an obvious case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“only causes discomfort and does not incapacitate the subject,”
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.