Brown’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Renee Soper, a Minor, by Her Mother and Next Friend, Lina Soper (1999), Creighton E. Miller v. American Heavy Lift Ship
1 district ·
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 · City of Canton v. Harris · Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit · City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle · Lovelace v. O'Hara
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A second type of ... deliberate indifference is where the city fails to act in response to repeated complaints of constitutional violations by its officers.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]nce litigation involving particular conduct or a given transaction or occurrence has been instituted, the parties are not entitled to the protection of the statute of limitations against the later assertion by amendment of defenses or claims that arise out of the same conduct, transaction, or occurrence as set forth in the original pleading.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“capacity. Both Shaner and Goodlet knew that they were being sued under section 1983 as early as April 10, 1996, when plaintiffs filed their original Complaint in state court; to wit, they were the only defendants named in that pleading. Even if the specific capacity in which they were being sued was not clear until later, this was not a case where that temporary omission could have led defendants to believe that they themselves could not be liable. Both men”
2 later decisions 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.