Rittenhouse v. DeKalb County’s Empirical Analysis
764 F.2d 1451 · 1985
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Wright v. Newsome (1986), Taylor Walker v. G Ledbetter Phd
26 federal appellate · 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 · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Parratt v. Taylor · Paul v. Davis · Hudson v. Palmer
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a deprivation occurs pursuant to an established state procedure, pre-deprivation process is ordinarily feasible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'established state procedure' ... refers to the mechanism that effects a deprivation or contributes to cause a deprivation [and] the relevant inquiry in this context is whether predeprivation process is feasible....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he sovereign immunity enjoyed by [the county and the government official] [does] not render appellant's state law remedy inadequate under Parratt.”
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.