Sales’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably 153 Md. App. 91 - Rourke v. Amchem Products, Inc. (2003), Inez Sales (2000)
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Monroe v. Pape · Malley v. Briggs
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there can be but one reasonable conclusion as to the verdict,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“imposes liability ... for conduct that is the effective cause of another’s direct infliction of the constitutional injury.” Raub, 785 F.3d at 881 n. 6 (quoting Sales v. Grant, 158 F.3d 768, 776 (4th Cir.1998)). It reasoned that,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.