Schulz v. Long

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that evidence of pre-seizure conduct was irrelevant to reasonableness
• holding in Fourth Amendment case that officers’ actions in tense and evolving circumstances were reasonable, even if the actions were not the most prudent in hindsight
• holding officers were entitled to qualified immunity in fatal shooting of mentally ill person who initially had committed no crime or posed any threat because the individual attacked officers with an ax
• “[O]ne becomes seized when the officer’s show of authority has the effect of stopping his movement.”
• “the reasonableness inquiry extends only to those facts known to the officer at the precise moment the officers effectuate the seizure”
• officersʹ interactions with mentally ill suspect allegedly ʺset in motion a chain of events which culminated in [plaintiff] being shotʺ

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Terebesi v. Torreso
  Second Circuit· 2014-08-21· cited 272×
• Darrell Frederick v. City of Rogers, Arkansas
  Eighth Circuit· 2017-10-17· cited 179×
• Pauly v. White
  Tenth Circuit· 2017-10-31· cited 121×
• Vanessa Cole v. Dennis Hutchins
  Eighth Circuit· 2020-05-28· cited 48×
• Sok Kong v. City of Burnsville
  Eighth Circuit· 2020-05-29· cited 35×
• Estate of Lee Ex Rel. Lee v. Spokane
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2000-06-15· cited 29×
• Gina Torres v. Lance Coats
  Eighth Circuit· 2022-07-01· cited 28×
• Torbit v. Baltimore City Police Department
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2017-02-02· cited 16×
• Estate of Jaquez v. City of New York
  S.D. New York· 2015-05-08· cited 16×
• McGhee v. POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY, IA
  S.D. Iowa· 2007-02-23· cited 13×
• Jonas v. BOARD OF COMM'RS OF LUNA COUNTY
  D. New Mexico· 2010-03-10· cited 12×
• Estate of Blair v. Austin
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2020-06-02· cited 11×
• Owl v. Robertson
  D. Nebraska· 2000-01-12· cited 9×
• Policky v. City of Seward, Neb.
  D. Nebraska· 2006-05-25· cited 6×
• Milton Green v. City of St. Louis
  Eighth Circuit· 2025-04-08· cited 4×
• Doe v. City of Marion
  N.D. Indiana· 2002-04-23· cited 3×
• Diane Gardner v. Walter Buerger
  Eighth Circuit· 1996-04-29· cited 2×
• Jack Lacy v. City of Bolivar
  Eighth Circuit· 2005-08-02· cited 1×
• Terebesi v. Torresso
  Second Circuit· 2014-08-21
• 107oag033
  Maryland Attorney General Reports· 2022-03-02

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Graham v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 16,485×
• Tennessee v. Garner
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-27· cited 4,272×
• California v. Hodari D.
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-23· cited 3,670×
• Scott v. Henrich
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-09-09· cited 544×
• Fraire v. City of Arlington
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-04-10· cited 203×
• Cole v. Bone
  Eighth Circuit· 1993-05-17· cited 194×
• Hopkins v. Andaya
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-03-05· cited 171×
• Plakas v. Drinski
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-03-21· cited 135×
• Charles Bella v. Lee Chamberlain and Curtis Meyers
  Tenth Circuit· 1994-05-20· cited 130×
• Richard Eugene Abbott v. City of Crocker, Missouri James Stone
  Eighth Circuit· 1994-09-20· cited 113×
• Estate of Starks v. Enyart
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-09-14· cited 109×
• Greenidge v. Ruffin
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-03-08· cited 77×
• Real Property & Premises Known as 4408 Hillside Court, Alexandria, Virginia 22306 v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1992-11-09· cited 77×
• Schulz v. Long
  Eighth Circuit· 1995-01-03· cited 66×
• Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Savage
  Supreme Court· 1994-10-03· cited 63×
• Carter v. Buscher
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-09-01· cited 55×
• Medtronic, Inc., Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Convacare, Inc. Scoop, (Special Care of Our Patients) Inc. Robert G. Johnson, Appellees/cross-Appellants
  Eighth Circuit· 1994-02-22· cited 37×