Kellie Farris v. Oakland County, Mich.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[e]xcept in obvious case…[plaintiffs] must identify analogous caselaw clearly establishing that an officer’s specific force violated the Fourth Amendment under the circumstances.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Shannon Blick v. Ann Arbor Pub. Sch. Dist.
  Sixth Circuit· 2024-06-27· cited 31×
• Lamonte Jackson-Gibson v. Reginald Beasley
  Sixth Circuit· 2024-10-15· cited 9×
• Matthew Howell v. Justin McCormick
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-08-25
• Ryan Franke v. Kenny Janes
  Sixth Circuit· 2026-03-02

Cites

53 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Graham v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 16,485×
• Scott v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 2007-04-30· cited 13,305×
• Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1997-04-28· cited 7,185×
• Whren v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-05-15· cited 7,105×
• Connick v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 2011-03-29· cited 4,276×
• White v. Pauly
  Supreme Court· 2017-01-09· cited 2,504×
• United States v. Watson
  Supreme Court· 1975-10-06· cited 2,263×
• Plumhoff v. Rickard
  Supreme Court· 2014-05-27· cited 1,723×
• Maryland v. Pringle
  Supreme Court· 2003-12-15· cited 1,610×
• Manuel v. City of Joliet
  Supreme Court· 2017-03-21· cited 1,069×
• Virginia v. Moore
  Supreme Court· 2008-04-23· cited 793×
• Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington
  Supreme Court· 2012-04-02· cited 697×
• District of Columbia v. Wesby
  Supreme Court· 2018-01-22· cited 652×
• Kaley v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2014-02-25· cited 531×
• Odom v. Wayne County
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2008-12-30· cited 529×
• Rivas-Villegas v. Cortesluna
  Supreme Court· 2021-10-18· cited 476×
• Wayne Thomas Ahlers and Nina Ahlers v. Ronald J. Schebil
  Sixth Circuit· 1999-07-30· cited 440×
• Lawrence H. Kent v. Perry Johnson and Dale Foltz
  Sixth Circuit· 1987-08-07· cited 390×