Ex parte Harris’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Misty Kingsland v. City of Miami · 792 So. 2d 392 - Ex Parte Cranman · Diversicare Corp. v. Nickerson · Wood v. Kesler · Grider v. City of Auburn
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" No city or town shall be liable for damages for injury done to or wrong suffered by any person or corporation, unless such injury or wrong was done or suffered through the neglect, carelessness, or unskillfulness of some agent, officer, or employee of the municipality engaged in work therefor and while acting in the line of his or her duty, or unless the said injury or wrong was done or suffered through the neglect or carelessness or failure to remedy some defect in the streets, alleys, public ways, or buildings after the same had been called to the attention of the council or other governing body or after the same had existed for such an unreasonable length of time as to raise a presumption of knowledge of such defect on the part of the council or other governing body and whenever the city or town shall be made liable for damages by reason of the unauthorized or wrongful acts or negligence, carelessness, or unskillfulness of any person or corporation, then such person or corporation shall be liable to an action on the same account by the party so injured...."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“acted 'willfully, maliciously, fraudulently, [or] in bad faith' so as to remove [her] from the umbrella of State-agent immunity afforded [her] under Ex parte Cranman .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]o the extent that we have concluded above that [the government official] was entitled to State-agent immunity, the Town would also be immune from suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.