Ward v. City of San Jose’s Empirical Analysis
967 F.2d 280 · 1991
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Smith v. City of Hemet (2005), United States v. Reese (1993)
26 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Graham v. Connor · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Smith v. Wade · Hannahville Indian Community 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the motion is based on an alleged inconsistency in the jury verdict, the question is whether the verdict can be reconciled on any reasonable theory consistent with the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A]ll claims that law enforcement officers have used excessive force ... in the course of an arrest ... should be analyzed under the Fourth Amendment and its 'reasonableness' standard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“of the plaintiff's death--led inexorably to the conclusion that their conduct was objectively reasonable as required by the Fourth Amendment. We rejected the defendants' argument there, holding that the finding was not”
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.