Morse v. Lower Merion School District’s Empirical Analysis
132 F.3d 902 · 1997
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 165 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 641 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Phillips v. County of Allegheny (2008), Kaucher
53 federal appellate · 165 district · 6 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams · Baker v. McCollan · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Martinez v. California
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 641 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court need not credit a complaint's 'bald assertions' or 'legal conclusions' when deciding a motion to dimiss.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the harm ultimately caused was foreseeable and fairly direct; (2) the state actor acted in willful disregard for the safety of the plaintiff; (3) there existed some relationship between the state and the plaintiff; (4) the state actors used their authority to create an opportunity that otherwise would not have existed for the third party’s crime to occur.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]very person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the Unit ed States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress....”
7 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.