Rokusek v. Jansen’s Empirical Analysis
899 F.3d 544 · 2018
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Hope v. Pelzer · Ashcroft v. al-Kidd · Ashcroft v. al-Kidd · Brown v. City of Golden Valley
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.
“present different facts and circumstances, there is no requirement that [the plaintiff] must find a case where the very action in question has previously been held unlawful, so long as existing precedent [has] placed the statutory or constitutional question beyond debate”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an officer took a fleeing arrestee to the ground after he ignored repeated warnings to put his hands behind his back.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Karels v. Storz“[t]he Supreme Court has warned that [courts] must not 'define clearly established law at a high level of generality.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hazley v. Roy
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.