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Citation profile

90
cited by 90 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 16 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Wilson v. Arkansas Department of Human Services (2017), 363 F. Supp. 2d 771 - Gremo v. Karlin (2005)

1 federal appellate · 16 district · 1 state decisions

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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. · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · City of Canton v. Harris

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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Second, a supervisor may be personally liable under § 1983 if he or she participated in violating the plaintiff's rights, directed others to violate them, or, as the person in charge, had knowledge of and acquiesced in the subordinate's unconstitutional conduct.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “'with deliberate indifference to the consequences, established and maintained a policy, practice or custom which directly caused [the] constitutional harm.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “A governmental entity ... cannot be liable under a theory of respondeat superior or vicarious liability. Rather, in order for a governmental entity ... to be liable for the violation of a constitutional right under § 1983, the plaintiff must identify a policy or custom of the entity that caused the constitutional violation.”
    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.