Dick v. Watonwan County’s Empirical Analysis
738 F.2d 939 · 1984
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Patzner v. Burkett (1985), United States v. Badalamenti (1986)
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Rizzo v. Goode · Polk County v. Dodson · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Herrera v. Valentine
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“certainly not unconstitutional in and of itself.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The second task is to determine whether that policy is unconstitutional.”
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.