Lenard v. Argento’s Empirical Analysis
699 F.2d 874 · 1983
Citation profile
124 federal appellate · 10 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 262 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably City of Canton v. Harris (1989), Bell v. City of Milwaukee (1984)
124 federal appellate · 10 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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. § 1920 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Glasser v. United States · Wong Sun v. United States · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Carroll v. United States
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 262 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [A] mere failure by the county to supervise its employees would not be sufficient to hold it liable under § 1983. However, the county could be held liable if the failure to supervise or the lack of a proper training program was so severe as to reach the level of a “gross negligence” or “deliberate indifference” to the deprivation of the plaintiff’s constitutional rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is the function of the courts to seek the proper interpretation of a contract which reflects the intentions of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There can be liability only when there is an extremely high degree of culpability for inaction.”
2 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.