Drewitt v. Pratt’s Empirical Analysis
999 F.2d 774 · 1993
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 124 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 192 W. Va. 189 - Painter v. Peavy (1994), 194 W. Va. 52 - Williams v. Precision Coil, Inc. (1995)
19 federal appellate · 124 district · 8 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“affirmative obligation of the trial judge to prevent factually unsupported claims and defenses from proceeding to trial.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the severity of the crime at issue, whether the suspect poses an immediate threat to the safety of the officers or others, and whether he is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leonard Edmundson, Administrator of the Estate of James Richard Turnage, Deceased Alene Rouse Yelverton Robert Yelverton Craig Yelverton Karen Bennett Kathy Edmundson Libby Peele Erin Jannell Shirley, a Minor, by and Through Her Guardian, Janice Stocks Janice Stocks, as Guardian Ad Litem for the Above v. Grayham Keesler, Individually and in His Official Capacity as an Officer of the City of Goldsboro Police Department Daniel Peters, Individually and in His Official Capacity as an Officer of the City of Goldsboro Police Department James P. Morgan, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Police Chief of the City of Goldsboro Police Department Chester Hill, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Police Chief for the City of Goldsboro Police Department, and the City of Goldsboro Police Department City of Goldsboro, Leonard Edmundson, Administrator of the Estate of James Richard Turnage, Deceased Alene Rouse Yelverton Robert Yelverton Craig Yelverton Karen Bennett Kathy Edmundson Libby Peele Erin Jannell Shirley, a Minor, by and Through Her Guardian, Janice Stocks Janice Stocks, as Guardian Ad Litem for the Above v. City of Goldsboro, and Grayham Keesler, Individually and in His Official Capacity as an Officer of the City of Goldsboro Police Department Daniel Peters, Individually and in His Official Capacity as an Officer of the City of Goldsboro Police Department James P. Morgan, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Police Chief of the City of Goldsboro Police Department Chester Hill, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Police Chief for the City of Goldsboro Police Department the City of Goldsboro Police Department · White v. Leonhardt“whether at the moment of the shooting Officer Pratt had probable cause to believe that Drewitt posed a threat of death or serious bodily harm to him.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Joyce Wilson, Individually, and as Natural Guardian and Next Friend of the Minor Child, Natalie J. Wilson Est Datton Wilson, Jr. Anthony D. Wilson Anita D. Wilson Datton Wilson, III Crystal L. Johnson Kasha C. Wilson v. Luther Donald Meeks David Scott Lawson Phyllis Renee Lawson City of Haysville, a Municipal Corporation John Coleman, and Timothy John Stock Bruce K. Powers Lanon Thompson Debbie Mann J. Earl Kitchings, Joyce Wilson, Individually, and as Natural Guardian and Next Friend of the Minor Child, Natalie J. Wilson Est Datton Wilson, Jr. Anthony D. Wilson Anita D. Wilson Datton Wilson, III Crystal L. Johnson Kasha C. Wilson v. Luther Donald Meeks, and Timothy John Stock Bruce K. Powers Lanon Thompson David Scott Lawson Phyllis Renee Lawson Debbie Mann J. Earl Kitchings City of Haysville, a Municipal Corporation and John Coleman · 127 Md. App. 271 - Pagotto v. State
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.