Reimer v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.2d 1316 · 1981
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Doe v. Taylor Independent School District (1994), Morton v. Becker (1986)
62 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 1652 (Rules of Decision Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Edelman v. Jordan · Parratt v. Taylor · Perry v. Sindermann · Allen v. McCurry
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is axiomatic that a plaintiff cannot succeed in a § 1983 action if he fails to demonstrate a causal connection between the state official's alleged wrongful action and his deprivation of life, liberty, or property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““In Wanger v. Bonner, 621 F.2d 675 (5th Cir.1980), we stated that a supervisory official could not be held liable for failing to adopt policies to prevent constitutional violations, but could be held liable if he affirmatively adopted policies which were wrongful or illegal and which caused the alleged deprivation of constitutional rights. 6 ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there are two prior inconsistent judgments, only the last judgment has estoppel effect.” Reimer v. Smith, 663 F.2d 1316 , 1327 (5th Cir.1981); Browning v. Navarro, 887 F.2d 553 , 563 (5th Cir.1989) (stating”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.