Thompson v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
709 F.2d 381 · 1983
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Jett v. Dallas Independent School District (1986), Stewart
10 federal appellate ·
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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Parratt v. Taylor · Rizzo v. Goode · Guajardo v. Estelle
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly § 1983 does not give a cause of action based on the conduct of subordinates”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stewart“Personal involvement is an essential element of a civil rights cause of action.”
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.