Thomas v. Talesky’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2004
4 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))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · 88 Ill. App. 3d 522 - Holda v. County of Kane · Dahnke v. People · People Ex Rel. Walsh v. Board of Commissioners
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the county board has no power to supervise, direct or control the actions of the Sheriff in the operation of the jail.” Thomas v. Talesky, 554 F.Supp. 1377 , 1378 (N.D.Ill.1983). Substantiating the position with the observation that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parker v. Williams
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.