Fontroy v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
150 F.3d 239 · 1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2018
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Carey v. Piphus · Hudson v. McMillian · Helling v. McKinney · Burnett v. Grattan
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State ... subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United 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 ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Adams v. Selhorst“Helling d[id] not create a federal rule that would provide [ ] a cause of action under [ Section 1983 ].”
1 later decision 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.