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Almand v. County Georgia’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

41
cited by 41 later decisions
August 2023
most recently cited

1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 169 F. Supp. 2d 1301 - Ott v. City of Mobile (2001), 14 F. Supp. 2d 1245 - Giron v. Corrections Corp. of America (1998)

1 district ·

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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

Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Monroe v. Pape · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Paul v. Davis · Baker v. McCollan

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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The dispositive question is whether the defendant was exercising the power she possessed based on state authority or acting only as a private individual.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “possessed by virtue of state law and made possible only because [he] is clothed with the authority of state law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[n]ot all acts by state employees are acts under color of law.”
    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.