Baskin v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
588 F.2d 965 · 1979
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Sullivan v. Little Hunting Park, Inc. · Kugler v. Helfant · Citizens & Southern National Bank v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he relationship between the sheriff and his deputies is neither master-servant, nor principal-agent, and the sheriff's liability is not based on the doctrine of Respondeat superior . . . but it is, nevertheless, a form of limited vicarious liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duncan v. Edwards“deputies, including Smith, who was apparently in charge, together with the state troopers, left the office in Winnsboro and proceeded to the Baskin property. There they conducted a search described by the trial judge as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baskin v. Parker“I had been trying to get enough information together to in fact get a search warrant or to make a case on this particular defendant. . . . (W)e had been working the cases for quite some time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baskin v. Parker
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.