James v. Harris County’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.3d 612 · 2009
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Doe ex rel. Magee v. Covington County School District (2012), American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations v. City of Miami (2011)
11 federal appellate ·
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 · Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown · Jett v. Dallas Independent School District · Yohey v. Collins · Piotrowski v. City of Houston
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a widespread practice that is 'so common and well-settled as to constitute a custom that fairly represents municipal policy.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Deliberate indifference is a degree of culpability beyond mere negligence or even gross negligence; it 'must amount to an intentional choice, not merely an unintentionally negligent oversight.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here can be no municipal liability unless [an official policy] is the moving force behind the constitutional violation.”
2 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.