Dennis v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis
779 F.2d 245 · 1985
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2007 · most notably Albright v. Oliver (1994), Jean v. Nelson (1988)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Parratt v. Taylor · Beck v. United States · Federal Communications Commission v. League of Women Voters of California · Barbara A. Nesmith and Richard A. Nesmith v. H. D. Alford
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ll sheriffs shall be liable for the acts of their deputies, and for money collected by them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Sheriff Warren was not involved in any of the foregoing events.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An individual's right to be free from such unlawful arrest and detention is a federally protected right, the violation of which may be grounds for a suit under section 1983.”
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.