Apodaca v. Rio Arriba County Sheriff's Department’s Empirical Analysis
905 F.2d 1445 · 1990
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 18 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Medina v. City & County Denver (1992), Hinton v. City of Elwood (1993)
27 federal appellate · 18 district · 3 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 Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams · Paul v. Davis · City of Los Angeles v. Heller · Raphan v. United States
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]egligent operation of a vehicle by a police officer does not rise to the level of a constitutional violation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n whatever manner plaintiffs attempt to dress up their claims, their cases come down to allegations that [the officer] was driving too fast for the road and visibility conditions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]ollisions between police vehicles and others caused by police negligence clearly fall on the tort' side of the line.”
2 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.