# Graham v. Connor The 1989 Supreme Court decision that set the governing standard for police excessive-force claims: they are analyzed under the [[Fourth Amendment]]'s **"objective reasonableness"** test, judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene rather than with "the 20/20 vision of hindsight," and with allowance for the split-second judgments officers must make. It is the baseline the [[Officer-Created Jeopardy]] debate argues over. *Graham* never said how far back in time the reasonableness inquiry should reach, a gap that [[Barnes v. Felix]] partly closed in 2025. > Status: stub — expand with facts (Dethorne Graham, Charlotte, N.C.), the three *Graham* factors, and its role in qualified-immunity litigation. ## See Also - [[Barnes v. Felix]] · [[Officer-Created Jeopardy]] · [[Fourth Amendment]]