Coleman v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
814 F.2d 1142 · 1987
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Ross v. United States (1990), Argento v. Village of Melrose Park (1988)
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Smith v. Wade · Smith v. Ayer · Dunton v. County of Suffolk
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts recognize that scope of employment includes 'those acts which are so "closely connected with what the servant is employed to do, and so fairly and reasonably incidental to it, that they may be regarded as methods, even though quite improper ones, of carrying out the objectives of the employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We do not confuse the 'under color of state law' element of section 1983 with the 'scope of employment' requirement of the indemnification statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“litany of discovery abuse perhaps unparalleled in the annals of civil litigation”
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.