Rucker v. Harford County

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 bystander shot by an officer who was aiming at the tires of a suspect’s vehicle was not seized because he “was not the intended object of the shooting by which he was injured”
• holding Brower “directly foreclosed” the Fourth Amendment claim of a bystander accidentally shot by an officer who intended to hit a fleeing suspect
• no violation where officers in pursuit fired upon the tires of a vehicle driven by a fleeing suspect and accidentally shot a bystander when, among other things, officers did not know the bystander was in the line of fire
• no violation where officers in pursuit fired upon the tires of a vehicle driven by a fleeing suspect and accidentally shot a bystander when, among other things, officers did not know the bystander was in the line of fire
• speculating about the possibility in dicta
• speculating about the possibility in dicta

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Vaughan v. Cox
  Eleventh Circuit· 2003-08-29· cited 208×
• Mora v. City of Gaithersburg, Md.
  Fourth Circuit· 2008-03-04· cited 113×
• Childress v. City of Arapaho, OK
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-04-18· cited 89×
• Schultz v. Braga
  Fourth Circuit· 2006-07-31· cited 81×
• Matthew Milstead, Administrator of the Estate of Mark Milstead v. Chad Kibler Scott Proctor Lester Whetzel
  Fourth Circuit· 2001-04-05· cited 73×
• Siena Corporation v. Mayor and City Council of Rock
  Fourth Circuit· 2017-10-13· cited 30×
• Griffin v. Strong
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-01-27· cited 28×
• Doe v. Salisbury University
  D. Maryland· 2015-06-02· cited 20×
• Irwin v. City of Hemet
  California Court of Appeal· 1994-02-10· cited 15×
• Davis v. Bacigalupi
  E.D. Virginia· 2010-04-29· cited 14×
• Berman v. City of Daly City
  California Court of Appeal· 1993-12-22· cited 12×
• Nelson v. Diversified Collection Services, Inc.
  D. Maryland· 1997-04-15· cited 12×
• Nelson v. City of Davis
  E.D. California· 2010-04-29· cited 12×
• Front Royal And Warren County Industrial Park Corporation v. Town Of Front Royal
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-01-23· cited 9×
• Southern Blasting Services, Inc. v. Wilkes County
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-04-29· cited 9×
• Clark v. Buchko
  D. New Jersey· 1996-08-01· cited 8×
• Swann v. City of Richmond
  E.D. Virginia· 2007-08-03· cited 8×
• KASHAKA v. Baltimore County, Maryland
  D. Maryland· 2006-09-27· cited 6×
• Front Royal & Warren County Industrial Park Corp. v. Town of Front Royal, Virginia
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-01-23· cited 6×
• Sansotta v. Town of Nags Head
  E.D. North Carolina· 2012-03-28· cited 6×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Daniels v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-21· cited 7,676×
• Brower Ex Rel. Estate of Caldwell v. County of Inyo
  Supreme Court· 1989-03-21· cited 1,476×
• Sharon Temkin Bruce M. Temkin v. Frederick County Commissioners Glen Marion Selby, Jr.
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-09-12· cited 413×
• City of El Centro v. The United States
  Federal Circuit· 1990-12-28· cited 333×
• Jose Valdivieso Ortiz v. Melquiades Burgos, Pablo Robles Robles
  First Circuit· 1986-12-12· cited 117×
• Ansley v. Heinrich
  Eleventh Circuit· 1991-03-11· cited 95×
• Rucker v. Harford County
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-10-03· cited 49×