Lily v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably State v. Smith (2005), Tammy Brawner v. Scott Cnty., Tenn. (2021)
1 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Bell v. Wolfish
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f no constitutional violation by the individual defendants is established, the municipal defendants cannot be held liable under § 1983.”
10 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.