Free v. Granger’s Empirical Analysis
887 F.2d 1552 · 1989
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Dean v. Barber (1992), Brown v. City of Fort Lauderdale (1991)
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Kentucky v. Graham · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not sufficient ... to point to the absence of a medical doctor, or of a round-the-clock nurse, and decry the staffing policy as unconstitutional.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The statute of limitations begins to run when the first injury, however slight, occurs, even though that injury may later become great or different.”
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.