Franklin v. Zaruba’s Empirical Analysis
150 F.3d 682 · 1998
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Brokaw v. Mercer County (2000), 32 Cal. 4th 820 - Venegas v. County of Los Angeles (2004)
13 federal appellate · 2 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))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Kentucky v. Graham · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority v. Metcalf & Eddy, Inc.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“According to defendants, if sheriffs in Illinois are not agents of the county for purposes of holding the county hable under respondeat superior, then sheriffs must therefore be agents of the state. This argument overlooks a crucial third possibility ... — namely, that the sheriff is an agent of the county sheriffs department, an independently-elected office that is not subject to the control of the county in most respects.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the lack of identity between the county sheriff’s department and the general county government indicates that § 1983 suits against sheriffs in their official capacities are in reality suits against the county sheriff's department rather than the county board.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“performs his duties as the principal executive officer or chief law enforcement officer of the county, he acts as a county official”
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.