Sledd v. Linsday’s Empirical Analysis
102 F.3d 282 · 1996
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Oates v. Discovery Zone (1997), Lanigan v. Village of East Hazel Crest (1997)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“alleged in considerable detail how the `code of silence' operated, [claiming] specifically that the code injured [the plaintiff] because the officers responsible for using excessive force and otherwise abusing him had good reason to believe that their misconduct would not be revealed by their fellow officers and that they would effectively be immune even if a complaint was filed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kinney v. Weaver“'storm of gunfire' broke out from the unidentified man, [the plaintiff] was shot immediately, and he collapsed on the floor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in a far better position to see if Sledd [could] back up his allegations with anything that entitles him to a trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.