Begin v. Drouin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “We think that an objectively reasonable officer would regard a knife at twenty feet as posing no greater threat to an armed police officer than does a gun at sixty-nine feet”
• \[A] case need not be identical to clearly establish a sufficiently specific benchmark against which one may conclude that the law also rejects the use of deadly force in circumstances posing less of an immediate threat.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Escalera-Salgado v. United States
  First Circuit· 2018-12-19· cited 19×
• Penate v. Sullivan
  First Circuit· 2023-07-11· cited 16×
• United States v. Giambro
  First Circuit· 2025-01-15· cited 2×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Graham v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 16,485×
• Mitchell v. Forsyth
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-19· cited 8,858×
• Malley v. Briggs
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-05· cited 6,748×
• Tennessee v. Garner
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-27· cited 4,272×
• Tolan v. Cotton
  Supreme Court· 2014-05-05· cited 4,257×
• Johnson v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-12· cited 2,857×
• Ashcroft v. al-Kidd
  Supreme Court· 2011-05-31· cited 1,740×
• Camilo-Robles v. Hoyos
  First Circuit· 1998-07-22· cited 254×
• Young v. City of Providence ex rel. Napolitano
  First Circuit· 2005-04-11· cited 128×
• McKenney v. Mangino
  First Circuit· 2017-10-06· cited 100×
• Alfano v. Lynch
  First Circuit· 2017-02-01· cited 89×
• Morse v. Cloutier
  First Circuit· 2017-08-25· cited 86×
• Matalon v. Hynnes
  First Circuit· 2015-11-18· cited 72×
• Jerome Jarrett v. Town of Yarmouth, Gerard Britt, Cheryl Nugent Gomsey, Richard White, Peter McClelland Robert Chapman
  First Circuit· 2003-06-12· cited 61×
• Conlogue v. Hamilton
  First Circuit· 2018-10-11· cited 40×