Swint v. Chambers County Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1,289 federal appellate · 52 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,314 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Ashcroft v. Iqbal (2009), Johnson v. Jones (1995)
1,289 federal appellate · 52 district · 61 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSwint v. City of Wadley (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin
Cited together with Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Johnson v. Jones · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton
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 2,314 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“necessary to ensure meaningful review of”
69 later decisions quote this exact passage“includes only decisions that are conclusive, that resolve important questions separate from the merits, and that are effectively unreviewable on appeal from the final judgment in the underlying action.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“involves a controlling question of law as to which there is substantial ground for difference of opinion and that an immediate appeal from the order may materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation.”
17 later decisions 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.