Murray v. San Diego County’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Delta Savings Bank California Savings Association, Robert Slenk v. Trans World Systems Inc (2001)
2 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 · Paul v. Davis · McMillian v. Monroe County · Johnson v. Fankell · Leer
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) had final policymaking authority `concerning the action alleged to have caused the particular constitutional or statutory violation at issue' and (2) was the policymaker for the local governing body for the purposes of the particular act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the present case, however, the San Diego County district attorney was acting as a state official ... Weiner's § 1983 claim against the County, therefore, fails [because] [t]he County was not the actor; the state was.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , a local government may be liable for constitutional torts committed by its officials according to municipal policy, practice, or custom.”
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.