Davis v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
452 F.3d 686 · 2006
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Wagner v. Washington County (2007), Daniel v. Cook County (2016)
5 federal appellate ·
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 · Estelle v. Gamble · Hedberg v. Indiana Bell Telephone Co. · Jackson v. Marion County · David Sherrod v. Darlene Lingle, R.n.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Seventh Circuit has explained: The usual way in which an unconstitutional policy is inferred, in the absence of direct evidence, is by showing a series of bad acts and inviting the court to infer from them that the policymaking level of government was bound to have noticed what was going on and by failing to do anything must have encouraged or at least condoned, thus in either event adopting, the misconduct of subordinate officers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Deliberate indifference' is simply a synonym for intentional or reckless conduct, and can be established indirectly through circumstantial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“scour a record to locate evidence supporting a party's legal argument” nor”
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.