Lund v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.3d 6 · 2015
Citation profile
2 district · 3 state decisions
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 · City of Los Angeles v. Heller · Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. v. Swift-Eckrich, Inc. · Freeman v. Package Machinery Co. · Rodriguez v. Doral Mortgage Corp.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be held liable [under section 1983] unless action pursuant to official municipal policy of some nature caused a constitutional tort.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Caniglia v. Strom
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.