Tavarez v. O'Malley’s Empirical Analysis
826 F.2d 671 · 1987
Citation profile
34 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Easter House v. Felder (1990), Wilson v. Civil Town of Clayton (1988)
34 federal appellate ·
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 · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Parratt v. Taylor · Hudson v. Palmer
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the person committing the unconstitutional act may be employed at such a low level of state or local government that the official authorized to grant a pre-deprivation hearing would be unaware of the person's actions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“place[ ] beyond the reach of section 1983 any loss that 'is not a result of some established state procedure' ... [because] the state cannot predict when a loss will occur.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the officials authorized to grant such a hearing are unaware of the deprivation before it occurs,”
3 later decisions 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.