The following excerpt is from Sampson v. Cnty. of L. A., 974 F.3d 1012 (9th Cir. 2020):
Reichle v. Howards , 566 U.S. 658, 665, 132 S.Ct. 2088, 182 L.Ed.2d 985 (2012). As a practical matter, therefore, we must identify a case substantially similar, or nearly identical in some contexts, to the one at hand to find "clearly established" what otherwise would seem to be clear constitutional rights.3
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