Sybil Hernandez v. Brett Jarman

How courts have described this case

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

• finding no constitutional violation where officer shot victim after the victim rammed a fellow officer’s vehicle and appeared to be driving toward the shooting officer, despite discrepancies in the testimony about when exactly the shots were fired
• “The reasonableness of [an officer]’s use of deadly force is judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, and not from the unknowable intentions of the victim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Waterman v. Batton
  Fourth Circuit· 2005-01-03· cited 232×
• Allison Sanders v. City Of Minneapolis
  Eighth Circuit· 2007-01-23· cited 67×
• Harris v. Coweta County
  Eleventh Circuit· 2005-12-23· cited 43×
• Harris v. Coweta County
  Eleventh Circuit· 2005-04-20· cited 22×
• Molina-Gomes v. Welinski
  Eighth Circuit· 2012-04-30· cited 11×
• Jennifer Morgan-Tyra v. Andrei Nikolov
  Eighth Circuit· 2024-01-08· cited 11×
• Waterman v. Batton
  D. Maryland· 2003-12-11· cited 7×
• Sanders Ex Rel. Sanders v. City of Minneapolis
  Eighth Circuit· 2007-01-23· cited 1×
• Victor Harris v. Coweta County, Georgia
  Eleventh Circuit· 2005-04-20
• Victor Harris v. Coweta County, Georgia
  Eleventh Circuit· 2005-12-23
• No. 02-3519
  Eighth Circuit· 2003-09-24

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Graham v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 16,485×
• County of Sacramento v. Lewis
  Supreme Court· 1998-05-26· cited 6,212×
• Tennessee v. Garner
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-27· cited 4,272×
• Brower Ex Rel. Estate of Caldwell v. County of Inyo
  Supreme Court· 1989-03-21· cited 1,476×
• Cole v. Bone
  Eighth Circuit· 1993-07-12· cited 66×
• Norma Seiner Charles Seiner v. Christopher Drenon
  Eighth Circuit· 2002-09-23· cited 32×
• Unnamed case
  Eighth Circuit· 1989-08-09· cited 22×
• Sinclair v. City Of Des Moines
  Eighth Circuit· 2001-10-11· cited 17×