Connick v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
563 U.S. 51 · 2011
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 68 district · 13 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 6104 · 42 U.S.C. § 14141 (§ 210401 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 47 U.S.C. § 532 · 49 U.S.C. § 306
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Batson v. Kentucky
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 484 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] pattern of similar constitutional violations by untrained employees.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hill v. Walsh · Perkins v. Hastings“in light of the duties assigned to specific officers or employees the need for more or different training is so obvious, and the inadequacy so likely to result in the violation of constitutional rights, that the policymakers of the [county] can reasonably be said to have been deliberately indifferent to the need.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]here is no reason to assume police academy applicants are familiar with the constitutional constraints on the use of deadly force,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.