Smith v. Murphy

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that suffering only de minimis injuries does not bar one from asserting a Fourth Amendment excessive force claim
• explaining that the de minimis nature of an injury does not bar a Fourth Amendment excessive force claim but may indicate that the force used was reasonable
• “The second Graham factor likewise weighs in favor of [plaintiff], as Defendants had no reason to believe that [plaintiff] would react violently or incite a riot if confronted by officers.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Goodman v. Archbishop Curley High School, Inc.
  D. Maryland· 2016-07-19· cited 16×
• Byndon v. Pugh
  U.S. District Court· 2018-10-04· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Graham v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 16,485×
• Pearson v. Callahan
  Supreme Court· 2009-01-21· cited 13,928×
• Tennessee v. Garner
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-27· cited 4,272×
• Wilkins v. Gaddy
  Supreme Court· 2010-02-22· cited 2,173×
• Ashcroft v. al-Kidd
  Supreme Court· 2011-05-31· cited 1,740×
• Yamaha Motor Corp., USA v. Calhoun
  Supreme Court· 1996-01-09· cited 570×
• George F. Thompson v. Potomac Electric Power Company
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-12-12· cited 554×
• Carter v. Morris
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-01-14· cited 480×
• Dulaney v. Packaging Corp. of America
  Fourth Circuit· 2012-03-12· cited 475×
• Amanda Smith v. R. Ray
  Fourth Circuit· 2015-03-18· cited 345×
• Martin v. Gentile
  Fourth Circuit· 1988-06-17· cited 337×
• Rowland v. Perry
  Fourth Circuit· 1994-11-29· cited 274×
• Jones v. Buchanan
  Fourth Circuit· 2003-04-15· cited 222×
• Brown v. Gilmore
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-01-23· cited 203×
• Michael Durham v. David Horner
  Fourth Circuit· 2012-08-08· cited 200×
• Law v. South Carolina Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2006-04-10· cited 148×
• Carroll v. Carman
  Supreme Court· 2014-11-10· cited 145×
• CLOANINGER EX REL. EST. OF CLOANINGER v. McDevitt
  Fourth Circuit· 2009-02-09· cited 141×
• Orem v. Rephann
  Fourth Circuit· 2008-04-28· cited 123×
• Demetrius Hill v. C.O. Crum
  Fourth Circuit· 2013-08-14· cited 111×