Abalos v. Bernalillo County DA's Office’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Silva v. State (1987), California First Bank v. State (1990)
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 19 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Schear v. Board of County Commissioners · Methola v. County of Eddy · Smialek v. Begay · Wells v. County of Valencia · Anchondo v. Corrections Department
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A governmental entity is liable for damages resulting from tortious conduct of peace officers while acting within the scope of their duties.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f the city or state directly supervises the employee, then the city or state can be named,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where there is no indication that the [city or] state did anything wrong or had any responsibility for the alleged harm suffered by plaintiffs, the [city or] state is properly dismissed____ To force the city or state to defend an action in which it has little direct involvement would be unduly burdensome and unnecessary. Only the particular agency involved should be named.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.