Evett v. Detntff’s Empirical Analysis
330 F.3d 681 · 2003
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Gonzalez v. Kay (2009), Estate of Davis ex rel. McCully v. City of North Richland Hills (2005)
14 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Thompkins v. Belt · Harper v. Harris County · Southard v. Texas Board of Criminal Justice · United States v. Clark
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a 'sufficient causal connection' between [the City's] conduct and the constitutional violation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 1983 does not create supervisory or respondeat superior liability.”
2 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.