Anderson v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis
451 F.3d 1063 · 2006
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Edgerly v. City of San Francisco (2010), Naffe v. Frey (2015)
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · City of Canton v. Harris · West v. Atkins · United States v. Classic
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]very person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'performed' while the officer is acting, purporting, or pretending to act in the performance of his or her official duties”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A failure to train or supervise can amount to a 'policy or custom' sufficient to impose [ § 1983 ] liability....”
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.