Telthorster v. Tennell

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 conclusion that good faith was lacking based on what became known after the accident is “unduly informed by hindsight”
• explaining that the good-faith test considers what a reasonable officer could have believed “based on the information [the officer] possessed at the time”
• holding plaintiff did not controvert good faith where evidence was conclusory and did not establish that no reasonable officer would have been concerned for his safety under the particular facts of the case
• treating elements of official immunity as “conclusively established” when they were not disputed by the parties
• treating elements of official immunity as “conclusively established” when they were not disputed by the parties
• treating elements of official immunity as “conclusively established” when they were not disputed by the parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• The City of El Paso v. Lilli M. Heinrich
  Texas Supreme Court· 2009-05-01· cited 1,170×
• Gates v. Texas Deparment of Protective & Regulatory Services
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-07-31· cited 355×
• Derrick Newman v. James Guedry
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-12-21· cited 247×
• Ballantyne v. Champion Builders, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2004-07-09· cited 210×
• Reynaldo Ramirez v. Jim Wells County, Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-05-15· cited 195×
• Meyers v. JDC/Firethorne, Ltd.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2018-06-08· cited 139×
• Cherqui v. Westheimer Street Festival Corp.
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2003-08-28· cited 103×
• Ryan Crostley v. Lamar County Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-05-29· cited 88×
• Fieldtech Avionics & Instruments, Inc. v. Component Control. Com, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2008-08-07· cited 76×
• City of Seagoville v. Lytle
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2007-06-13· cited 58×
• Green v. Alford
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-11-20· cited 51×
• Harris County v. Gibbons
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-11-18· cited 50×
• National City Bank of Indiana v. Ortiz
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2013-05-16· cited 50×
• Crooks v. Moses
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2004-07-08· cited 46×
• City of Waco v. Williams
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-10-30· cited 41×
• Slagle v. Prickett
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2011-07-13· cited 38×
• Suzanne Wooten v. John Roach, Sr.
  Fifth Circuit· 2020-07-06· cited 37×
• Duncan-Hubert v. Mitchell
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2010-05-17· cited 36×
• Johnson v. Campbell
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2004-08-11· cited 36×
• Hidalgo County v. Gonzalez
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2004-02-26· cited 34×

Cites

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

• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Graham v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 16,485×
• Scheuer v. Rhodes
  Supreme Court· 1974-04-17· cited 13,385×
• Daniels v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-21· cited 7,676×
• Malley v. Briggs
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-05· cited 6,748×
• City of Lancaster v. Chambers
  Texas Supreme Court· 1994-06-15· cited 928×
• Robinson v. City of Detroit
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2000-07-18· cited 662×
• Travis v. City of Mesquite
  Texas Supreme Court· 1992-05-20· cited 644×
• Kassen v. Hatley
  Texas Supreme Court· 1994-12-22· cited 467×
• DeWitt v. Harris County
  Texas Supreme Court· 1995-09-14· cited 391×
• Wadewitz v. Montgomery
  Texas Supreme Court· 1997-10-02· cited 368×
• Rowland v. Perry
  Fourth Circuit· 1994-11-29· cited 274×
• University of Houston v. Clark
  Texas Supreme Court· 2000-10-12· cited 259×
• Reed Tool Co. v. Copelin
  Texas Supreme Court· 1985-04-10· cited 207×
• Post v. City of Fort Lauderdale
  Eleventh Circuit· 1993-11-09· cited 181×
• United States v. David Allen Merritt
  Tenth Circuit· 1982-12-28· cited 150×
• Haynes v. Hamilton County
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-08-29· cited 148×
• K.D.F. v. Rex
  Texas Supreme Court· 1994-06-22· cited 113×
• City of Pinellas Park v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-07-23· cited 80×
• City of Dallas v. Half Price Books, Records, Magazines, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1994-08-18· cited 50×