Edmonds v. Dillin’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2010 · most notably City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc. (1981), Hays v. Jefferson County (1982)
8 federal appellate · 6 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. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Estelle v. Gamble · Monroe v. Pape · Gregg v. Georgia · Rizzo v. Goode
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a municipality completely fails to train its police force, or trains its officers in a manner that is in reckless disregard of the need to inform and instruct police officers to perform their duties in conformity with the Constitution, and if the municipality might reasonably foresee that unconstitutional actions of its police officers might be committed by reason of the municipality’s failure or reckless disregard, then the municipality would have implicitly authorized or acquiesced in such future unconstitutional acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If a municipality completely fails to train its police force, or trains its officers in a reckless or grossly negligent manner so that future police misconduct is almost inevitable, the municipality exhibits a deliberate indifference to the resulting violations of a citizens constitutional rights. In such a case, the municipality may fairly be termed as acquiescing in and implicitly authorizing such violations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'deliberate indifference' is not an apt standard for defining the degree of municipal culpability required under Monell "); Spriggs v. City of Chicago, 523 F.Supp. 138, 142 (N.D.Ill.1981) ("proof of culpable policy or custom must be shown”
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.