Bannon v. Godin’s Empirical Analysis
2024
Citation profile
2 district ·
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Massachusetts District Court)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Graham v. Connor · City of Canton v. Harris · Scott v. Harris
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the need for more or different training is so obvious, and the inadequacy so likely to result in the violation of constitutional rights, that the policymakers of the city can reasonably be said to have been deliberately indifferent to the need.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Municipalities 'are responsible only for their own unconstitutional acts,' and 'are not vicariously liable . . . for the actions of their non-policymaking employees.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The deliberate indifference standard is 'stringent' and 'requir[es] proof that a municipal actor disregarded a known or obvious consequence of his action.'”
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.