Jackson v. Marion County’s Empirical Analysis
66 F.3d 151 · 1995
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Tamayo v. Blagojevich (2008), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Concentra Health Services, Inc. (2007)
58 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit · Bell v. City of Milwaukee · McNabola v. Chicago Transit Authority · Cornfield Lewis v. Consolidated High School District No
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he usual way in which an unconstitutional policy is inferred, in the absence of direct evidence, is by showing a series of bad acts and inviting the court to infer from them that the policymaking level of government was bound to have noticed what was going on and by failing to do anything must have encouraged or at least condoned, thus in either event adopting, the misconduct of its employees.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] plaintiff can plead himself out of court by alleging facts which show he has no claim, even though he was not required to allege those facts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“apart from [Rule 9] and a tiny handful of arguably appropriate judicial supplements to it, a plaintiff in a suit in federal court need not plead facts; he can plead conclusions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.