Green v. Branson’s Empirical Analysis
108 F.3d 1296 · 1997
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 68 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 218 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Sutton II v. Utah State School for the Deaf and Blind 1-5 1-5 (1999), Barney v. Pulsipher (1998)
64 federal appellate · 68 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 1746 · 28 U.S.C. § 455 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Warth v. Seldin · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Farrar v. Hobby · Whitley v. Albers
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since [plaintiff] is no longer a prisoner ..., the entry of a declaratory judgment in [his] favor would amount to nothing more than a declaration that he was wronged, and would have no effect on the defendants' behavior towards him.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'an affirmative link ... between the constitutional deprivation and either the supervisor's personal participation, ... exercise of control or direction, or ... failure to supervise.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“plaintiff cannot maintain a declaratory or injunctive action unless he or she can demonstrate a good chance of being likewise injured in the future.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.