Vazquez v. Metropolitan Dade County’s Empirical Analysis
968 F.2d 1101 · 1992
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Wood v. Kesler (2003), Hadley v. Gutierrez (2008)
18 federal appellate ·
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 Graham v. Connor · Allen v. McCurry · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · Neal v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Martin v. Malhoyt
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jury’s rejection of Vazquez’s defense of justification reflected its belief that Vazquez’s actions in shooting the gun did not constitute a reasonable response to the situation facing him. The jury’s verdict, however, in no way ruled on the propriety of the actions of the ... police officers after Vazquez committed his act of culpable negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Donovan v. Thames“[w]hen an issue of fact or law is actually litigated and determined by a valid and final judgment, and the determination is essential to the judgment, the determination is conclusive in a subsequent action between the parties, whether on the same or a different claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Vazquez's conviction for culpable negligence and the jury's rejection of Vazquez's justification defense does not necessarily foreclose the conclusion that the police used excessive force against him . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sullivan v. Gagnier
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.