Wigger v. McKee’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2025
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 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 · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Edelman v. Jordan · Monroe v. Pape · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under section 1983. After applying the above factors for determining whether a governmental entity is an arm of the State, the court concluded that Social Services was an arm of the State, and, thus, it could not be sued under section 1983. Id. The court found that Social Services has very few powers independent of the state and is designated by Colorado statute as”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“within the meaning of section 1983. Accordingly, plaintiffs' section 1983 claims against Delta Social Services are hereby dismissed. [8] Further, because a suit against an officer of the state in his or her official capacity is”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Because no provision has been made for the county departments to have their own funds to satisfy judgments against them, it appears that they would look to the statutory treasury for such.”
1 later decision 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.