Rhodes v. McDannel’s Empirical Analysis
945 F.2d 117 · 1991
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Sample v. Bailey (2005), Plott v. General Motors Corporation Packard Electric Division (1995)
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Graham v. Connor · United States v. Matlock · Tennessee v. Garner · Hutton v. United States
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the officers' actions are 'objectively reasonable' in light of the facts and circumstances confronting them, without regard to their underlying intent or motivation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dabbs v. Cutler
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.