Kelley v. LaForce’s Empirical Analysis
288 F.3d 1 · 2002
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 82 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Torres-Rosado v. Rotger-Sabat (2003), Gomez v. Rivera Rodriguez (2003)
33 federal appellate · 82 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 · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · Wilson v. Layne
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action for conversion 'cannot be maintained without proof that the defendant either did some positive wrongful act with the intention to appropriate the property to himself or to deprive the rightful owner of it, or destroyed the property.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[L]iability can be imposed on a local government only where that government's policy or custom is responsible for causing the constitutional violation or injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“need[ ] to be resolved by a trier of fact.”
3 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.