Sparks v. City of Compton

How courts have described this case

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

• finding proximate cause between plainclothes officers’ failure to declare or show their authority to citizen and injuries to third party when suspect fled the officers
• reversing summary judgment, where innocent motorist alleged he was injured by car fleeing plainclothes officers in unmarked car who had scared motorist by leaving their car in a threatening manner, brandishing their guns, and then chasing the fleeing motorist
• “Only the knowledge (or grounds therefor) of the officer’s authority imposes on an arrestee the obligation to yield without resistance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).