Cannon v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
782 F.2d 947 · 1986
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably City of Lancaster v. Chambers (1994), Temkin
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 · Parratt v. Taylor · Paul v. Davis · Screws v. United States · Stafford v. Oklahoma
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person injured in an automobile accident caused by the negligent, or even grossly negligent, operation of a motor vehicle by a policeman acting in the line of duty has no section 1983 cause of action for violation of a federal right.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a font of tort law to be superimposed upon whatever systems may already be administered by the States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Presumably, under this rationale any party who is involved in nothing more than an automobile accident with a state official could allege a constitutional violation under § 1983. Such reasoning ‘would make of the Fourteenth Amendment a font of tort law to be superimposed upon whatever systems may already be administered by the States.’ Paul v. Davis, 424 U.S. 693, 701 [ 96 S.Ct. 1155, 1160 , 47 L.Ed.2d 405 ] (1976). We do not think that the drafters of the Fourteenth Amendment intended the Amendment to play such a role in our society.”
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.