Soto v. Brooklyn Correctional Facility’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.3d 34 · 1996
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Donald v. Cook County Sheriff's Department (1996), 294 F. Supp. 2d 431 - In Re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation (2003)
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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 · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Owens v. Okure · Harris v. Oklahoma · Gordon v. Leeke
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) has received such notice of the institution of the action that the party will not be prejudiced in maintaining a defense on the merits, and (B) knew or should have known that, but for a mistake concerning the identity of the proper party, the action would have been brought against the party.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Since government officials are charged with knowing the law, any [prison] corrections officers who were aware of a lawsuit arising out of the attack on Soto "knew or should have known” that they, not [the prison itself] were subject to liability for the constitutional torts he alleged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[B]ut for [the plaintiff's] mistake [in naming the correctional facility as a defendant], he would have ... at least named the superintendent of the facility and obtained the names of the responsible officers through discovery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.