Boston v. Suffolk Cnty.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding, on a summary judgment motion, that ingestion of a large quantity of drugs and signs of distress such as vomiting, sleeping, slurred speech, and unsteadiness constituted a sufficiently serious danger
• concluding, on a summary judgment motion, that ingestion of a large quantity of drugs and signs of distress such as vomiting, sleeping, slurred speech, and unsteadiness constituted a sufficiently serious danger
• reading the complaint broadly to incorporate a sufficiently stated Monell claim
• Section 1024 unavailable when plaintiff asserting Section 1983 claims against John Does “had the names of [the defendant officers] before the statute of limitations had run” through, among other sources, arrest and prosecution records
• “Therefore, because the Second Circuit has explicitly held that lack of knowledge of a John Doe defendant’s name does not constitute a mistake of identity, the Plaintiff cannot avail himself of Rule 15(c)(1)(C).” (quotations and citations omitted)
• “Plaintiff cannot avail himself of the benefits of § 1024 . . . where [he] had the names of the officers before the statute of limitations expired . . . [but] made no attempt to amend his complaint or serve them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cites

53 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of Catrett
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 119,442×
• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• City of Canton v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1989-02-28· cited 10,043×
• Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1997-04-28· cited 7,185×
• Connick v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 2011-03-29· cited 4,276×
• Kingsley v. Hendrickson
  Supreme Court· 2015-06-22· cited 4,087×
• Hill v. Curcione
  Second Circuit· 2011-09-15· cited 2,905×
• City of Revere v. Massachusetts General Hospital
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-27· cited 1,572×
• Darnell v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2017-02-21· cited 1,487×
• Tjymas Blackmore v. Kalamazoo County
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-12-07· cited 1,296×
• Amnesty America v. Town of West Hartford
  Second Circuit· 2004-03-15· cited 938×
• Jones v. Town of East Haven
  First Circuit· 2012-08-01· cited 887×
• Spavone v. New York State Department of Correctional Services
  Second Circuit· 2013-06-20· cited 872×
• Hogan v. Fischer
  Second Circuit· 2013-12-20· cited 812×
• Weyant v. Okst
  Second Circuit· 1996-12-03· cited 808×
• Cash v. County of Erie
  Second Circuit· 2011-08-18· cited 698×
• James Walker v. The City of New York
  Second Circuit· 1992-09-04· cited 673×
• Cornejo v. Bell
  Second Circuit· 2010-01-04· cited 623×
• John J. Pitchell v. James F. Callan, Gregory Sargis and City of Hartford, David J. Lesser and Steven Del Sole, Special Masters
  Second Circuit· 1994-01-03· cited 591×