James R. Brooks v. D.R. Scheib, City of Atlanta’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 1191 · 1987
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Church v. City of Huntsville (1994), Griffin v. City of Opa-Locka (2001)
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle · Rizzo v. Goode · Polk County v. Dodson · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co.
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) municipality's failure to correct the constitutionally offensive actions of its police department may rise to the level of a 'custom or policy' if the municipality tacitly authorizes these actions or displays deliberate indifference towards the police misconduct (citations omitted))”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n Scheib’s case, for example, there is a logical explanation as to why a large number of complaints have been lodged against him: Officer Scheib patrolled a high crime area. A significant percentage of those Scheib arrested were continually in trouble with the law. These experienced “customers” frequently use citizens’ complaints as a means of harassing officers who arrest them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t would be perverse to require that courts exclude allegations of past wrongdoing in order to protect the rights of defendants, while at the same time demanding that police officials give credence to unsubstantiated complaints against individual police officers.”
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.