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723 F.2d 675 · 1984
Citation profile
136 federal appellate · 24 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 235 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Taylor v. List (1989), Ashelman v. Pope (1986)
136 federal appellate · 24 district · 8 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Wolff v. McDonnell · Imbler v. Pachtman · Preiser v. Rodriguez
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 235 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A supervisor cannot be held personally liable under Sec. 1983 for the constitutional deprivations caused by his subordinates, absent his participation or direction in the deprivation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The focus of the analysis ... is on the nature or function of the prosecutor's authority.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would arise from his role as an officer of the court charged to do justice. An act or an omission concerning such a duty cannot be construed as only administrative or investigative; it too is necessarily related to [the prosecutor's] preparation to prosecute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Broam v. Bogan · Broam v. Bogan
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.