Little v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the suspect pointed a black object- at the officer in “a two-handed gun position” that the officer believed to be a “shooting stance”
• North Carolina law “is co-extensive with the Constitution of the United States on the issue of excessive force”
• “The Plaintiff alleges liability on behalf of Sheriff Sellers and Anson County indirectly[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Parker v. Bladen County
  E.D. North Carolina· 2008-06-27· cited 47×
• Wiley v. Buncombe County
  W.D. North Carolina· 2012-03-02· cited 17×
• Oliver v. Baity
  M.D. North Carolina· 2016-09-23· cited 15×
• Dorato v. Smith
  D. New Mexico· 2015-05-26· cited 11×
• Stockton v. Wake County
  E.D. North Carolina· 2016-03-24· cited 9×
• Wilcoxson v. Buncombe County
  W.D. North Carolina· 2014-08-20· cited 7×
• Olvera v. Edmundson
  W.D. North Carolina· 2001-07-17· cited 5×
• United States v. Johnson
  M.D. North Carolina· 2015-08-07· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-26· cited 58,760×
• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Graham v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 16,485×
• City of Canton v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1989-02-28· cited 10,043×
• 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×
• City of St. Louis v. Praprotnik
  Supreme Court· 1988-03-02· cited 3,553×
• Siegert v. Gilley
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-23· cited 2,725×
• Wilson v. Layne
  Supreme Court· 1999-05-24· cited 2,678×
• City of Los Angeles v. Heller
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-21· cited 2,104×
• Behrens v. Pelletier
  Supreme Court· 1996-02-21· cited 2,084×
• Ronald K. Drewitt v. Fred L. Pratt Pizza Hut of America, Inc., City of Norfolk, Party-In-Interest
  Fourth Circuit· 1993-07-22· cited 941×
• McMillian v. Monroe County
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-02· cited 879×
• Charbonnages De France v. Frank B. Smith, Juanita Smith, Frank Smith, Jr., Smith Brothers Construction Company and Continental Coal Sales Corporation
  Fourth Circuit· 1979-05-03· cited 746×
• Miltier v. Beorn
  Fourth Circuit· 1990-02-20· cited 712×
• Maciariello v. Sumner
  Fourth Circuit· 1992-08-18· cited 375×
• Hinkle v. City of Clarksburg
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-04-17· cited 296×