Luck v. Rovenstine’s Empirical Analysis
168 F.3d 323 · 1999
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Brokaw v. Mercer County (2000), Mary Cherrington and Daija King, a Minor, by and Through Her Mother and Next Friend, Mary Cherrington v. Andre Skeeter, John Kinney, and City of Circleville, Ohio (2003)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · Gerstein v. Pugh · City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o establish personal liability in a sec. 1983 action, the plaintiff must show that the government officer caused the deprivation of a federal right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“sheriff is the custodian of the persons incarcerated in the jail”; sheriff was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“caused the deprivation of a federal right.”
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.