Alioto v. City of Shively’s Empirical Analysis
835 F.2d 1173 · 1987
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Moldowan v. City of Warren (2009), Miller v. Glanz (1991)
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Briscoe v. W · Holmes v. United States · Mann v. Koob · Continental Airlines, Inc. v. Zimmerman
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he doctrine of witness immunity does not shield from liability alleged conspiracies to falsify nontestimonial evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[L]iability will not be imposed solely upon the basis of respondeat superior. There must be a showing that the supervisor encouraged the specific incident of misconduct or in some other way directly participated in it. At a minimum, a ... plaintiff must show that a supervisory official at least implicitly authorized, approved or knowingly acquiesced in the unconstitutional conduct of the offending subordinate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Lewis“[s]upervisory personnel are subject to liability [only] where evidence establishes that they 'authorized [or] approved ... the unconstitutional conduct of the offending officers.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Lewis
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.