Marchese v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
758 F.2d 181 · 1985
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably McMillian v. Monroe County (1997), Leach v. Shelby County Sheriff (1989)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Monroe v. Pape · Rochin v. People of California · Rizzo v. Goode
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ejvery person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State ... subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We believe that the relationship between the County and the Sheriffs Department is so close as to make the County liable for the Sheriffs failure to train and discipline his officers and his ratification of the use of wanton brutality by members of his force which we have spelled out above. Obviously this holding is consistent with and indeed compelled by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brandon v. Holt, supra.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Sheriffs subsequent failure to order and direct an investigation which disclosed exactly who were the perpetrators of these brutal violations to the U.S. Constitutional and to administer censure and punishment served to confirm the existence of an unstated ‘policy’ of toleration of illegal brutality toward any county prisoner who threatened the life of a sheriffs deputy.”
2 later decisions 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.