Carbalan v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
760 F.2d 662 · 1985
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Ledbetter v. City of Topeka (2003), Thorne v. City of El Segundo (1986)
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Foman v. Davis · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Pulliam v. Allen · Familias Unidas v. Briscoe
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In addition to his judicial duties, a Texas county judge is charged by the state constitution and statutes with the performance of numerous executive, legislative and administrative chores in the day-to-day governance of the county. The narrow authority delegated to the county judge in [this statute], however, bears no relation to his traditional role in the administration of county government or to the discretionary powers delegated to him by state statute in aid of that role. Instead, his duty in implementing [this statute], much like that of a county sheriff in enforcing state law, may more fairly be characterized as the effectuation of the policy of the [state] embodied in that statute, for which the citizens of a particular county should not bear singular responsibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the city is not liable simply because the judge held the office of municipal judge”
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.