Esteves v. Brock’s Empirical Analysis
106 F.3d 674 · 1997
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Carter v. City of Philadelphia (1999), Bass v. Parkwood Hospital (1999)
10 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Batson v. Kentucky · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Imbler v. Pachtman · Sloan v. Hicks
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.
“[A] county may only be held liable for acts of a district attorney when he 'functions as a final policymaker for the county.' " Brown v. Lyford , 243 F.3d 185 , 192 (5th Cir. 2001) (quoting Esteves v. Brock , 106 F.3d 674 , 678 (5th Cir.1997) ). "Texas law makes clear ... that when acting in the prosecutorial capacity to enforce state penal law, a district attorney is an agent of the state, not of the county in which the criminal case happens to be prosecuted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]or those [remaining] duties that are administrative or managerial in nature, . . . a district attorney . . . functions as a final policymaker for the county.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] county may only be held liable for acts of a district attorney when he 'functions as a final policymaker for the county.'”
2 later decisions 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.