Pyle v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
874 F.3d 1257 · 2017
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1681A · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Pearson v. Callahan · City of Canton v. Harris
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A policy or custom includes a formal regulation or policy statement, an informal custom that amounts to a widespread practice, decisions of municipal employees with final policymaking authority, ratification by final policymakers of the decisions of subordinates to whom authority was delegated, and the deliberately indifferent failure to adequately train or supervise employees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hunt v. Iron Cnty.“the existence of a municipal policy or custom which directly caused the alleged injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hunt v. Iron Cnty.“Municipalities can be liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 only for their own unlawful acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hunt v. Iron Cnty.
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.