Brewington v. Keener’s Empirical Analysis
902 F.3d 796 · 2018
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
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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 · Hensley v. Eckerhart · City of Canton v. Harris · Carey v. Piphus · Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) had notice of a pattern of unconstitutional acts committed by subordinates; (2) was deliberately indifferent to or tacitly authorized those acts; and (3) failed to take sufficient remedial action; (4) proximately causing injury to [the plaintiff].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“had notice that the training procedures were inadequate and likely to result in a constitutional violation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(1) the existence of a continuing, widespread, persistent pattern of unconstitutional misconduct by the [municipality's] employees; (2) deliberate indifference to or tacit authorization of such conduct by the [municipality's] policymaking officials after notice to the officials of that misconduct; and (3) that [she] was injured by acts pursuant to the [municipality's] custom, i.e., that the custom was a moving force behind the constitutional violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Meier v. St. Louis
How this case has been treated — in progress
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