Mandel v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.2d 783 · 1989
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 206 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Farrow v. West (2003), Hill v. Dekalb Regional Youth Detention Center (1994)
76 federal appellate · 3 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
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 · Estelle v. Gamble · Monroe v. Pape · City of Canton v. Harris · 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 206 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In making this determination, the court should examine not only the relevant positive law, including ordinances, rules and regulations, but also the relevant customs and practices having the force of law. The court must also ensure that the municipal official possesses the authority and responsibility for establishing final policy with respect to the issue in question.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he mere delegation of authority to a subordinate to exercise discretion is not sufficient to give the subordinate policy-making authority. Rather, the delegation must be such that the subordinate’s discretionary decisions are not constrained by official policies and are not subject to review.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[w]hen the need for treatment is obvious, medical care which is so cursory as to amount to no treatment at all may amount to deliberate indifference.”
7 later decisions 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.