Dominguez v. Beame’s Empirical Analysis
603 F.2d 337 · 1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 1999 · most notably Landrigan v. City of Warwick (1980), 105 Ohio App. 3d 728 - Mayes v. City of Columbus (1995)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Pierson v. Ray · Wood v. Strickland
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order for a governmental entity to be liable “for its own violations, ... the plaintiff in a § 1983 action bears the burden of showing first that the governmental entity maintained or practiced an unconstitutional or unlawful “policy” or “custom,” . .. and second that that policy or custom “caused” or was the “moving force” behind the violation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““a local government may not be sued [under § 1983] for an injury inflicted solely by its employees or agents. Instead, it is when execution of a government’s policy or custom, whether made by its lawmakers or by those whose edicts or acts may fairly be said to represent official policy, inflicts the injury that the government as an entity is responsible under § 1983.” 436 U.S. at 694 , 98 S.Ct. at 2038.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Kneller“who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws....”
1 later decision 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.