Lewis v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
855 F.2d 736 · 1988
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Maldonado-Denis v. Castillo-Rodriguez (1994), Holloman ex rel. Holloman v. Harland (2004)
15 federal appellate · 1 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 · Anderson v. Creighton · Wolff v. McDonnell · Daniels v. Williams · Carey v. Piphus
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a causal connection linking the supervisor's actions with the violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gaston v. Taylor
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.