Nishiyama v. Dickson County

How courts have described this case

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

• Due Process Clause required sheriff to protect a motorist from violence at the hands of an inmate who stopped a motorist by flashing blue light of patrol car given to the inmate by the sheriff because of inmate's \trusty\ status
• sheriff provided inmate unsupervised use of squad car

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gibson v. City of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-08-23· cited 1,128×
• Roger Monette and Doris Monette v. Electronic Data Systems Corporation
  Sixth Circuit· 1996-07-30· cited 740×
• Officer Melissa Kallstrom v. City of Columbus
  Sixth Circuit· 1998-02-12· cited 452×
• Sharon Temkin Bruce M. Temkin v. Frederick County Commissioners Glen Marion Selby, Jr.
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-09-12· cited 413×
• Stemler v. City of Florence
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-10-08· cited 377×
• Leffall v. Dallas Independent School District
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-08-12· cited 372×
• Norbert C. Pearson, Also Known as Spike v. City of Grand Blanc, J. Larry Tomlinson
  Sixth Circuit· 1992-03-10· cited 261×
• Veronica McQueen v. Beecher Community Schools
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-01-05· cited 260×
• Berry v. City of Muskogee
  Tenth Circuit· 1990-04-10· cited 256×
• Reed v. Gardner
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-02-23· cited 244×
• Bobby Joe Lewellen v. The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee and the Metropolitan Board of Public Education
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-10-12· cited 227×
• Committee of United States Citizens Living in Nicaragua v. Ronald Wilson Reagan, President of the United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1988-12-16· cited 195×
• Pinder v. Johnson
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-05-30· cited 189×
• Fagan v. City of Vineland
  Third Circuit· 1994-04-29· cited 169×
• Gazette v. City of Pontiac
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-12-08· cited 162×
• Nishiyama v. Dickson County
  Sixth Circuit· 1987-03-18· cited 133×
• Janice Jones v. Charles E. Sherrill
  Sixth Circuit· 1987-09-02· cited 119×
• Rippy v. Hattaway
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-11-02· cited 115×
• Sheila Vinson v. Campbell County Fiscal Court Nickie Hornsby and William Stoll
  Sixth Circuit· 1987-06-04· cited 104×
• Ben Collins v. John Nagle
  Sixth Circuit· 1989-12-22· cited 102×

Cites

31 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×
• Conley v. Gibson
  Supreme Court· 1957-11-18· cited 30,380×
• Daniels v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-21· cited 7,676×
• Parratt v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 1981-05-18· cited 6,693×
• Baker v. McCollan
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-26· cited 5,659×
• Tennessee v. Garner
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-27· cited 4,272×
• City of Oklahoma v. Tuttle
  Supreme Court· 1985-08-14· cited 3,810×
• Rochin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-02· cited 3,286×
• Screws v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1945-05-07· cited 2,023×
• Davidson v. Cannon
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-21· cited 1,806×
• Johnson v. Glick
  Second Circuit· 1973-06-29· cited 1,567×
• Brandon v. Holt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 1,538×
• Martinez v. California
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-03· cited 1,332×
• Den Ex Dem. Murray v. Hoboken Land & Improvement Co.
  Supreme Court· 1856-02-19· cited 831×
• Dent v. West Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1889-01-14· cited 764×
• Henry J. Bennett, Jr. v. City of Slidell, Gerry Hinton, B.E. McDaniel Nunzio Giordano, and Patrick J. Berrigan
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-04-02· cited 460×
• Thomas L. Bowers, Administrator of the Estate of Marguerite Anne Bowers, Deceased v. Robert A. Devito, M.D.
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-09-02· cited 397×
• Richard L. Windsor v. The Tennessean
  Sixth Circuit· 1984-01-23· cited 368×
• Bruce B. Landrigan v. City of Warwick
  First Circuit· 1980-08-27· cited 274×
• Larry T. Wilson, Cross-Appellant v. Thomas L. Beebe, Cross-Appellee
  Sixth Circuit· 1985-08-12· cited 267×