Sarus v. Rotundo’s Empirical Analysis
831 F.2d 397 · 1987
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Zahra v. Town of Southold (1995), Song v. Ives Laboratories, Inc. (1992)
12 federal appellate · 4 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 · Owen v. City of Independence · Polk County v. Dodson · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]unicipal inaction such as the persistent failure to discipline subordinates who violate civil rights could give rise to an inference of an unlawful municipal policy of ratification of unconstitutional conduct within the meaning of Monell .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hogan v. Franco“single incident of errant behavior is an insufficient basis for finding that a municipal policy caused plaintiff's injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“so deficient as to reflect a policy of deliberate indifference to the civil rights of the citizenry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.