Christopher Jeffes v. William Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
208 F.3d 49 · 2000
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 23 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably No. 03-7332 (2004), Roe v. City of Waterbury (2008)
20 federal appellate · 23 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · City of Canton v. Harris · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well established in this Circuit that when examining an individual’s status as a policymaker under Monell , the official in question need not be a municipal policymaker for all purposes. Rather, with respect to the conduct challenged, he must be responsible under state law for making policy in that area of the [municipality’s] business, or must have the power to make official policy on a particular issue, or must “possess! ] final authority to establish municipal policy with respect to the action ordered.” Thus, the court must ask whether [the] governmental official [is a] final policymaker! ] for the local government in a particular area, or on [the] particular issue’ involved in the action.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ausation may also be established by showing that the municipality acquiesced in a 'longstanding practice or custom' constituting the 'standard operating procedure' of the local governmental entity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“even though such a custom has not received formal approval through the body's official decisionmaking channels.'”
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.