Smith v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
159 F.3d 1137 · 1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2021
4 federal appellate ·
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 City of Canton v. Harris · Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown · Andrews v. Fowler · Jane Doe v. The Special School District of St. Louis County · Hossaini v. Western Missouri Medical Center
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We recently held that two specific complaints and various rumors about an officer were not sufficient to establish a policy or custom of condoning unconstitutional conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brewington v. Keener“proof of 'widespread unconstitutional conduct that was so pervasive and well-settled that it had the effect of law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brewington v. Keener
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.