Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Calvin Dibrell v. City of Knoxville, Tenn. (2021), 432 F. App'x 435 - Bud Lee v. Metropolitan Gov't of Nashville (2011)
1 district · 2 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Estelle v. Gamble · Beck v. State of Ohio · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons
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.
“There can be no Monell municipal liability under § 1983 unless there is an underlying unconstitutional act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]tates cannot create federal constitutional rights actionable under § 1983.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bodager v. Campbell
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.