Van Ooteghem v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
774 F.2d 1332 · 1985
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Parker v. Williams (1989), McMillian v. Johnson (1996)
21 federal appellate ·
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 · Perry v. Sindermann · Kentucky v. Graham · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Central Intelligence Agency v. Holy Spirit Ass'n for the Unification of World Christianity
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“decisions regarding termination of [an employee] fall on the local not the state side of his duty: he was about the business of county government ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McMillian v. Johnson“effectuation of the policy of the State of Texas [and] ... discretionary local duties in the administration of county government,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McMillian v. Johnson“action must necessarily be considered to represent official policy”
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.