Conner v. Travis County

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that district court improperly sanctioned attorney for filing frivolous appeal
• holding that district court improperly sanctioned attorney for filing frivolous appeal
• holding that district courts cannot generally sanction parties for appeals
• noting that the Supreme Court “rejected a per se rule barring a court from sanctioning parties for conduct they take outside its courtroom” in Chambers
• reasoning that “if the need for training ... was ‘so obvious’ and the failure to train was ‘so likely to result in the violation of constitutional rights[,]’... Connors would be able to identify other instances of harm arising from the failure to train”
• observing, however, that in Brown v. Bryan County, Okla., 219 F.3d 450 (5th Cir.2000

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

40 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pineda v. City of Houston
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-05-09· cited 434×
• Valle v. City of Houston
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-07-30· cited 419×
• Estate of Davis Ex Rel. McCully v. City of North Richland Hills
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-04-11· cited 378×
• Susan Carnaby v. City of Houston
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-03-22· cited 369×
• Cozzo v. Tangipahoa Parish Council-President Government
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-01-10· cited 337×
• Zarnow v. CITY OF WICHITA FALLS, TEX.
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-08-09· cited 333×
• Sanders-Burns v. City of Plano
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-01-14· cited 214×
• James v. Harris County
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-08-04· cited 183×
• Hernandez v. Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-08-31· cited 153×
• In Re Paige
  N.D. Texas· 2007-03-28· cited 44×
• Unnamed case
  Sixth Circuit· 2007-02-22· cited 38×
• Kokesh v. Curlee
  Fifth Circuit· 2021-09-21· cited 37×
• Thompson v. Connick
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-08-10· cited 28×
• Flanagan v. City of Dallas
  N.D. Texas· 2014-09-23· cited 25×
• Cobell v. Norton
  District of Columbia· 2002-09-17· cited 23×
• Pineda v. City of Houston
  S.D. Texas· 2000-12-06· cited 18×
• Schaefer v. Whitted
  W.D. Texas· 2015-08-05· cited 17×
• Christopher Manion v. American Airlines, Inc., Roy W. Krieger
  D.C. Circuit· 2005-02-11· cited 15×
• Harvey v. Montgomery County
  S.D. Texas· 2012-04-30· cited 11×
• Malone v. City of Fort Worth
  N.D. Texas· 2018-03-02· cited 10×

Cites

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

• City of Canton v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1989-02-28· cited 10,043×
• Chambers v. Nasco, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1991-08-02· cited 6,250×
• Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-11· cited 4,510×
• Behrens v. Pelletier
  Supreme Court· 1996-02-21· cited 2,084×
• Baker v. Putnal
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-02-15· cited 805×
• Jane Doe v. Taylor Independent School District, Mike Caplinger in His Official Capacities and Eddy Lankford in His Official and Individual Capacities
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-03-03· cited 600×
• Calvin Rhodes v. Guiberson Oil Tools
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-01-31· cited 349×
• James Snyder, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Sidney Trepagnier, City of New Orleans, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-05-27· cited 338×
• Ann Rhyne v. Henderson County
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-10-13· cited 286×
• Breaux v. City of Garland
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-03-15· cited 208×
• Western Systems, Inc. Lee M. Holmes v. Richard F. Ulloa David J. Ulloa
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-06-23· cited 151×
• Suzanne Germany v. Carol Vance, Suzanne Germany v. Carol Vance
  First Circuit· 1989-03-20· cited 148×
• Chaves v. M/V Medina Star
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-03-10· cited 117×
• Apolinar \Paul\ Benavides and Stella G. Benavides v. County of Wilson and Marvin H. Baumann, Sheriff, Individually and in His Official Capacity
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-03-05· cited 95×
• Edwards v. General Motors Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-09-11· cited 82×
• Travelers Insurance v. St. Jude Hospital of Kenner, La., Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-11-21· cited 75×
• Walker v. City of Bogalusa
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-03-05· cited 70×
• Rexford Kipps, Carol Kipps and Kyle Kipps v. James Caillier, Ray Authement, Nelson J. Schexnayder, Jr., and Nelson Stokley
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-12-06· cited 63×
• Harris O. Schoenberg v. Shapolsky Publishers, Incorporated, Ian Shapolsky and Steimatzky Publishing of North America, Inc., Samuel A. Abady, Esq.
  Second Circuit· 1992-08-06· cited 58×
• McCoy v. Hernandez
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-02-17· cited 57×