Garcia v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the State of Arizona was properly dismissed from a suit for the wrongful death of a prisoner under § 1983 because a state is not a person within the meaning of that statute
• state is not a “person” within the meaning of section 1983

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Carrillo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1991-09-05· cited 32×
• Wilkie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1989-08-22· cited 2×

Cites

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

• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• Edelman v. Jordan
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-13· cited 6,517×
• Monroe v. Pape
  Supreme Court· 1961-02-20· cited 4,784×
• Quern v. Jordan
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-05· cited 4,123×
• Maine v. Thiboutot
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,890×
• Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-28· cited 1,679×
• Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury
  Supreme Court· 1945-01-08· cited 1,526×
• Tenney v. Brandhove
  Supreme Court· 1951-05-21· cited 1,470×
• Moor v. County of Alameda
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-18· cited 1,302×
• Brown v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1986-11-03· cited 227×
• Woodbridge v. Worcester State Hospital
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-07-09· cited 76×
• Marrapese v. Rhode Island
  D. Rhode Island· 1980-10-10· cited 71×
• Jordan v. Weaver
  Seventh Circuit· 1973-01-18· cited 67×
• Anthony Della Grotta v. State of Rhode Island
  First Circuit· 1986-01-17· cited 57×
• Gumbhir v. Kansas State Board of Pharmacy
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1982-06-11· cited 55×
• Edgar v. State
  Washington Supreme Court· 1979-05-24· cited 52×
• Uberoi v. University of Colorado
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1986-01-31· cited 43×
• Lowery v. Department of Corrections
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1985-10-08· cited 38×
• State v. Green
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-10-02· cited 26×
• Harris v. Arizona Board of Regents
  D. Arizona· 1981-12-23· cited 25×