Edwards v. Baer’s Empirical Analysis
863 F.2d 606 · 1988
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Romero v. Fay (1995), Cole v. Bone (1993)
23 federal appellate · 2 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 · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Monroe v. Pape · Malley v. Briggs
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“police department guidelines do not create a constitutional right,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““The St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners is not a suable entity. ‘Jurisdiction can only be obtained by suing its individual members.’ Lawrence v. Board of Police Comm’rs, 604 F.Supp. 1229, 1232 (E.D.Mo.1985). See also Best v. Schoemehl, 652 S.W.2d 740, 742 (Mo.Ct. App.1983) (“An action against the ‘St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners’ in that name alone does not lie.”). The district court therefore properly dismissed plaintiffs cause of action as against the “St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Banks v. Slay“While the unfortunate incident that gave rise to this lawsuit would not have occurred if [the officer] had followed the department’s guidelines, police department guidelines do not create a constitutional right.... A public official does not lose his qualified immunity merely because his conduct violates some statutory or administrative provision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.