Jane Doe v. Edgewood Indep School District

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “liability does not attach where the official with authority to take corrective action re- sponds reasonably to a risk of harm, even if the harm ulti- mately was not averted”
• “Texas law is clear that final policymaking authority in an independent school district . . . rests with the district's board of trustees.”
• “FBI, police and District investigation reports are generally admissible under Fed. R. Evid. 803(8
• “The information about Hernandez reviewed at the time of hiring simply does not show the requisite ‘strong connection’ between an arrest in 1983 for official oppression and sexual abuse thirty years later.”
• A report that a student spent time at the student’s chemistry teacher’s house did not put the school on notice that the same teacher engaged in a sexual relationship with another student.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• John Hall v. Millersville University
  Third Circuit· 2022-01-11· cited 24×
• C. S. v. Madison Metropolitan School
  Seventh Circuit· 2022-05-10· cited 20×
• Roe v. Cypress-Fairbanks Indep
  Fifth Circuit· 2022-11-14· cited 16×
• Doe AW v. Burleson County, TX
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-11-09· cited 12×
• Stafford v. George Washington University
  District of Columbia· 2022-01-04
• Loera v. Kingsville Indep Sch Dist
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-08-22
• Jane Doe 1 v. City View Indep Sch Dist
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-09-04

Cites

44 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×
• Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-26· cited 58,760×
• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1997-04-28· cited 7,185×
• Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-25· cited 6,061×
• Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1998-03-04· cited 3,700×
• Jett v. Dallas Independent School District
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-22· cited 2,093×
• Davis Ex Rel. LaShonda D. v. Monroe County Board of Education
  Supreme Court· 1999-05-24· cited 1,743×
• Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School District
  Supreme Court· 1998-06-22· cited 1,376×
• Piotrowski v. City of Houston
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-01-17· cited 1,341×
• Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools
  Supreme Court· 1992-02-26· cited 1,134×
• Gibson v. County of Washoe, Nevada
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-05-22· cited 1,016×
• Vance v. Ball State Univ.
  Supreme Court· 2013-06-24· cited 946×
• Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-29· cited 708×
• 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×
• Baynard v. Malone
  Fourth Circuit· 2001-10-19· cited 463×
• 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×
• Murrell Ex Rel. Jones v. School District No. 1
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-08-04· cited 282×
• Henry J. Bennett, Jr. v. City of Slidell, Gerry Hinton, B.E. McDaniel Nunzio Giordano, and Patrick J. Berrigan
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-07-09· cited 266×