295 F. Supp. 1025 - Thomas v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Melvin Carter v. John R. Carlson (1971), Rieser v. District of Columbia (1977)
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 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 Cardillo v. United States · 55 Cal. 2d 211 - Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District · 96 So. 2d 130 - Hargrove v. Town of Cocoa Beach · Elgin v. District of Columbia · Fernelius v. Pierce
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nce the decisions have been made to have a police department, to organize it in a particular way, and to hire a specific individual, ... the acts of training, instructing, supervising and controlling the individual officer are merely 'ministerial.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““The District [of Columbia] is not shielded from suit in this case by the doctrine of governmental immunity. ... It may ... be sued on a theory of respondeat superior for the ministerial acts of its employee officers in allegedly assaulting Plaintiff.” 295 F.Supp at 1033.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“whether the operation of the force, including training, instruction, supervision and control of police officers, is a discretionary or a ministerial function of a municipal government.”
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.