Simmons v. McElveen’s Empirical Analysis
846 F.2d 337 · 1988
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Romero v. Fay (1995), Campbell v. City of San Antonio (1995)
9 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Daniels v. Williams
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Due Process Clause is simply not implicated by a negligent act of an official causing unintended loss of or injury to life, liberty or property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herrera v. Millsap“[t]his information was not turned over to the district attorney's office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“saw a sketch of the robber noticing a resemblance to Simmons.”
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.