Snyder v. Trepagnier’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.3d 791 · 1998
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Piotrowski v. City of Houston (2001), Kinney v. Weaver (2004)
75 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 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 · Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor · City of Canton v. Harris · Tennessee v. Garner
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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a court fails to adhere to rigorous requirements of culpability and causation, municipal liability collapses into respondeat superior liability.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e must make “a concerted effort to reconcile apparent inconsistencies ... if at all possible.” We must ask whether “the answers may fairly be said to represent a logical and probable decision on the relevant issues as submitted.... ” Only if there is no view of the case that will make the jury’s answers consistent may we set aside its decision.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“proof of a single violent incident ordinarily is insufficient tohold a municipality liable for inadequate training.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.