Bryan v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
530 F.2d 1210 · 1976
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2014 · most notably Gomez v. Toledo (1980), Procunier v. Navarette (1978)
67 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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))
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Monroe v. Pape · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)f (the sheriff) negligently establishes a . . . system in which errors of this kind are likely, he will be held liable.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fowler v. Cross · Jones v. Lopez“[I]n varying scope, a qualified immunity is available to officers of the executive branch of government, the variation being dependent upon the scope of discretion and responsibilities of the office and all the circumstances as they reasonably appeared at the time of the action on which liability is sought to be based. It is the existence of reasonable grounds for the belief formed at the time and in light of all the circumstances, coupled with good-faith belief that affords a basis for qualified immunity of executive officers from acts performed in the course of official conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I emphasize that this is reasonable good faith: Inescapably what is good faith is a question of fact for each case. But there are strong indicators to help the decision-makers. The court must consider the kind of responsibility of the official, Scheuer v. Rhodes, supra, 416 U.S. at 246 , 94 S.Ct. at 1691 , 40 L.Ed.2d at 102 . One of the critical elements is that the official demonstrate that he has employed efficient management principles so as to minimize the chance of error and maximize the likelihood of full satisfaction of constitutional and statutory obligation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Fowler v. Cross · LaMarca v. Turner
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.