Plakas v. Drinski

How courts have described this case

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

• limiting the scope of inquiry to “the moments preceding the [police] shooting” and excluding all prior events
• analyzing officer’s actions by “carv[ing] up the incident into segments and judg[ing] each on its own terms to see if the officer was reasonable at each stage”
• analyzing officer’s actions by “carv[ing] up the incident into segments and judg[ing] each on its own terms to see if the officer was reasonable at each stage”
• “The Fourth Amendment does not require officers to use the least intrusive or even less intrusive alternatives”
• “particular care” required before summary judgment can be granted “where the officer defendant is the only witness left alive to testify”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).