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749 F.3d 755 · 2014

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
February 2023
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Heck v. Humphrey

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A policy of action is one in which the government body itself violates someone's constitutional rights, or instructs its employees to do so; a policy of inaction is based on a government body's 'failure to implement procedural safeguards to prevent constitutional violations.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Goodin v. City of Glendora · Estate of Mendez v. City of Ceres
  2. “in order to recover damages for allegedly unconstitutional conviction or imprisonment, or for other harm caused by actions whose unlawfulness would render a conviction or sentence invalid, a § 1983 plaintiff must prove that the conviction or sentence has been reversed on direct appeal, expunged by executive order, declared invalid by a state tribunal authorized to make such determination, or called into question by a federal court’s issuance of a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2254 .”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Rosales-Martinez v. Palmer · 708 F. App'x 903 - Paul Blumberg v. Brian Hewitt
  3. “Under Monell , [CPMG] can be held liable under § 1983 for policies of inaction as well as policies of action.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Estate of Nunez by and through Nunez v. County of San Diego · Goodin v. City of Glendora

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.