Wright v. Sheppard’s Empirical Analysis
919 F.2d 665 · 1990
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Gold v. City of Miami (1998), Slicker v. Jackson (2000)
13 federal appellate · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on City of Canton v. Harris · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Carey v. Piphus · City of St. Louis v. Praprotnik · Smith v. Wade
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under § 1983 'when the defendant's conduct is shown to be motivated by evil motive or intent, or when it involves callous or reckless indifference to the federally protected rights of others.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the need for such training must be plainly obvious to Department decision makers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swanson v. Scott
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.