Connick v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
83 federal appellate · 128 district · 14 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedThompson v. Connick (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · City of Canton v. Harris
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 671 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A municipality's culpability for a deprivation of rights is at its most tenuous where a claim turns on a failure to train.”
94 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the unconstitutional consequences of failing to train could be so patently obvious that a city could be liable under § 1983 without proof of a pre-existing pattern of violations.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“action pursuant to official municipal policy”
20 later decisions 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.