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901 F.3d 981 · 2018

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
April 2025
most recently cited

3 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 Terry v. Ohio · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pearson v. Callahan

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[I]n determining whether [a] seizure and search were unreasonable, this court looks at whether the officer's action was justified at its inception, and whether it was reasonably related in scope to the circumstances which justified the interference in the first place. The search must be strictly tied to and justified by the circumstances which rendered its initiation permissible.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “(1) the facts, viewed in the light most favorable to [her], demonstrate the deprivation of a constitutional or statutory right; and (2) the right was clearly established at the time of the deprivation.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “force is least justified against nonviolent misdemeanants who do not flee or actively resist arrest and pose little or no threat to the security of the officers or the public.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.