Beddingfield v. City of Pulaski’s Empirical Analysis
861 F.2d 968 · 1988
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Simmons v. City of Philadelphia (1991), Danese v. Asman (1989)
14 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 · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle · Agency Holding Corp. v. Malley-Duff & Associates, Inc. · Molton v. City of Cleveland
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because the City provided its own in-house training program.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“deliberate and discernable municipal policies or customs”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Russo v. Massullo
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.