Rickie Patton v. Barry Johnson and Steven M. Johnson, Individually and Law Offices of Steven M. Johnson, P.C., D/B/A the Johnson Law Firm

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a court “needn’t limit [its] analysis to the cases cited by [the p]laintiff[]” when determining whether a defendant is entitled to qualified immunity
• holding that “continuing to inflict force despite [a suspect’s] committing no crime, posing no threat, and giving no active resistance” violates clearly established law
• concluding the defendants were entitled to qualified immunity because the plaintiffs failed to identify an analogous case
• holding that the use of force must be proportionate “to the situation”
• holding that the use of force must be proportionate “to the situation”
• explaining that identified cases must prohibit the “challenged conduct” of a defendant acting under similar circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).