Mortimer v. Baca’s Empirical Analysis
594 F.3d 714 · 2010
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 · City of Canton v. Harris · Daniels v. Williams · Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown · Lee v. City of Los Angeles
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so obvious, and the inadequacy [of the current procedure] so likely to result in the violation of constitutional rights, that the policymakers... can reasonably be said to have been deliberately indifferent to the need.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Greenband” program in which inmates who could not be released at the courthouse due to a need to give a DNA sample or have a medical examination were given a green wristband and returned to the Inmate Reception Center (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Avalos v. Baca“Over-Detention and Erroneous Release” tracking system (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Avalos v. Baca
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.