Craig v. Floyd County’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Proof of a single incident of unconstitutional activity is not sufficient to impose liability” against a municipality. “A pattern of similar constitutional violations ... is ‘ordinarily necessary.’ ” “A single incident would not be so pervasive as to be a custom,” because a custom must be such “a longstanding and widespread practice [that it] is deemed authorized by the policymaking officials because they must have known about it but failed to stop it.” This requirement of proof “prevents the imposition of liability based upon an isolated incident,” and “ ‘ensures that a municipality is held liable only for those deprivations resulting from the decisions of its duly constituted legislative body or of those officials whose acts may fairly be said to be those of the municipality.’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Swanson v. Scott · 108 F. Supp. 3d 1167 - Hughes v. Judd

2. “A single incident of a constitutional violation is insufficient to prove a policy or custom even when the incident involves several [subordinates].”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Piazza v. Jefferson Cnty. · Brown v. City of Atlanta

3. “review[ ] de novo summary judgment rulings and draw[ ] all inferences and review[ ] all evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gorss Motels, Inc. v. Safemark Sys., LP