Daskalea v. District of Columbia’s Empirical Analysis
227 F.3d 433 · 2000
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 88 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Woodford v. Ngo (2006), Warren v. District of Columbia (2004)
23 federal appellate · 88 district · 3 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 · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Farmer v. Brennan · City of Canton v. Harris · Kentucky v. Graham
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who, under color of [state law] subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen ... to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]either the complaint nor any other pleading filed by plaintiff indicates whether [the individual] was charged in her official or her individual capacity”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“put on expert testimony to establish what that standard of care is if the subject in question is so distinctly related to some science, profession, or occupation as to be beyond the ken of the average layperson.”
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.