Walker v. Sheahan’s Empirical Analysis
526 F.3d 973 · 2008
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably O'Leary v. Accretive Health, Inc. (2011), Gomez v. Randle (2012)
14 federal appellate · 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Heck v. Humphrey · City of Canton v. Harris · Hafer v. Melo · Gile v. United Airlines, Inc.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ctions against individual defendants in their official capacities are treated as suits brought against the government entity itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“liable for the violation of an individual's constitutional rights for failure to train adequately its officers only when the inadequacy in training amounts to deliberate indifference to the rights of the individuals with whom the officers come into contact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) an express policy caus[ed] the loss when enforced; (2) a widespread practice constituting a custom or usage' caus[ed] the loss; or (8) a person with final policymaking authority caus[ed] the loss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fox v. Rice
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.