Karels v. Storz’s Empirical Analysis
906 F.3d 740 · 2018
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pearson v. Callahan · Scott v. Harris · Johnson v. Jones
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“several cases establish[ed] that every reasonable officer would have understood that he could not forcefully take down ... a nonviolent, nonthreatening misdemeanant who was not actively resisting arrest or attempting to flee ... in the allegedly violent and uncontrolled manner that [the Defendant officers] did.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“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”
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.