Greenidge v. Ruffin

How courts have described this case

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

• holding officer’s failure to follow standard arrest procedures is not relevant to whether the officer acted reasonably in using force
• rejecting arguments that an officer’s “misconduct of failing to comply with 12 the standard police procedures” factored into the reasonableness inquiry
• affirming judgment for officer although officer was unable to confirm the nature of the weapon at issue, which turned out to be a wooden nightstick, before using deadly force
• violations of procedure for nighttime prostitution arrests created more dangerous situation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Terebesi v. Torreso
  Second Circuit· 2014-08-21· cited 272×
• Elliott v. Leavitt
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-11-26· cited 227×
• Chavez v. City of Albuquerque
  Tenth Circuit· 2005-03-29· cited 199×
• Billington v. Smith
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-06-21· cited 184×
• Hensley Ex Rel. North Carolina v. Price
  Fourth Circuit· 2017-11-17· cited 159×
• Pauly v. White
  Tenth Circuit· 2017-10-31· cited 121×
• Julian Betton v. David Belue
  Fourth Circuit· 2019-11-05· cited 89×
• Kathryn Pollard v. City of Columbus, Ohio
  Sixth Circuit· 2015-03-05· cited 76×
• Azucena Zamorano Aleman v. City of Charlotte
  Fourth Circuit· 2023-08-16· cited 56×
• Little v. Smith
  W.D. North Carolina· 2000-08-17· cited 21×
• Jonas v. BOARD OF COMM'RS OF LUNA COUNTY
  D. New Mexico· 2010-03-10· cited 12×
• Estate of Blair v. Austin
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2020-06-02· cited 11×
• Newman v. Green
  D. Maryland· 2002-04-29· cited 5×
• Pethtel v. West Virginia State Police
  N.D. West Virginia· 2008-07-29· cited 4×
• Russo v. United States
  E.D. Virginia· 1999-02-19· cited 3×
• James v. City of Chester
  D. South Carolina· 1994-05-18· cited 1×
• Bouggess v. Mattingly
  W.D. Kentucky· 2006-03-31· cited 1×
• Ingle v. Yelton
  W.D. North Carolina· 2004-11-19· cited 1×
• Terebesi v. Torresso
  Second Circuit· 2014-08-21

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Graham v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 16,485×
• United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
  Supreme Court· 1948-03-08· cited 9,383×
• James Johnson, Jr. v. D. Morel
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-07-05· cited 212×
• Dennis Persinger v. Norfolk & Western Railway Company
  Fourth Circuit· 1990-12-10· cited 110×
• Greenidge v. Ruffin
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-03-08· cited 77×
• Larry Ford v. David Childers, Roger Jones and City of Taylorville, Illinois, Defendants
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-08-22· cited 73×
• Jay T. Brown v. Deputy Constable John Glossip
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-08-04· cited 66×
• Hammer v. Gross
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-09-06· cited 36×
• Falwell v. Flynt
  Fourth Circuit· 1986-08-05· cited 20×
• In re \Agent Orange\ Product Liability Litigation
  E.D. New York· 1980-06-04· cited 8×