Henry Clash v. Michael Beatty

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a showing that force was “so plainly excessive” is sufficient to meet the clearly estab- lished requirement
• stating that “police officers do not have the right to shove, push, or otherwise assault innocent citizens without any provocation whatsoever”
• acknowledging that officers do not have a right to “shove, push, or otherwise assault” people without provocation
• shoving unarmed and handcuffed arrestee into police car, causing mild trauma injury to arrestee’s knee was excessive force
• collecting cases denying qualified immunity to officers who use excessive force while arresting compliant suspects
• denying summary judgment on qualified immunity claim because the Court lacked the “given facts” that either do or do not show a violation of “clearly established law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

91 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Barbara Payne v. Michael Pauley
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-07-09· cited 1,341×
• Cindy Abbott v. Sangamon County
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-01-29· cited 604×
• Wheeler v. Lawson
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-08-21· cited 465×
• Carmichael v. Village of Palatine, Ill.
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-05-21· cited 363×
• Sow v. Fortville Police Department
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-02-11· cited 340×
• Gonzalez v. City of Elgin
  Seventh Circuit· 2009-08-20· cited 295×
• Holmes v. Village of Hoffman Estates
  Seventh Circuit· 2007-12-26· cited 279×
• John Lanigan, Sr. v. Village of East Hazel Crest, Illinois, Officer Robert Wasek, Chief Ray Robertson
  Seventh Circuit· 1997-03-28· cited 268×
• Chelios v. Heavener
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-03-21· cited 241×
• Rivas v. City of Passaic
  Third Circuit· 2004-04-26· cited 226×
• Jones v. Buchanan
  Fourth Circuit· 2003-04-15· cited 222×
• Jewett v. Anders
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-04-11· cited 178×
• Sachin Gupta v. Chad Melloh
  Seventh Circuit· 2021-12-06· cited 133×
• Baird v. Renbarger
  Seventh Circuit· 2009-08-03· cited 126×
• Monfils v. Taylor
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-12-23· cited 114×
• Miguel Gutierrez v. Michael Kermon
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-07-12· cited 92×
• Michelle Cameron v. Michelle Craig
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-04-16· cited 87×
• Mary Sallenger, as the Administrator of the Estate of Andrew B. Sallenger, Deceased v. Brian Oakes, James Zimmerman, and Jason Oliver
  Seventh Circuit· 2007-01-10· cited 86×
• Colston v. Barnhart
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-07-14· cited 84×
• Rooni v. Biser
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-02-04· cited 74×

Cites

10 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×
• Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-20· cited 10,863×
• Mitchell v. Forsyth
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-19· cited 8,858×
• Johnson v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-12· cited 2,857×
• Behrens v. Pelletier
  Supreme Court· 1996-02-21· cited 2,084×
• George Rakovich v. Gregory Wade and Darryl Drake, George Rakovich v. Chester Kass
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-07-14· cited 393×
• Talmadge McDonald Iii, a Minor, by His Mother and Next Friend, Glynis R. McDonald v. Patrick E. Haskins
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-07-01· cited 190×
• Cynthia Kernats v. Thomas O'Sullivan
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-09-16· cited 184×
• Ronnie Rice v. James Burks and Mark Harvey
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-07-26· cited 49×