Taylor v. McDuffie’s Empirical Analysis
155 F.3d 479 · 1998
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably Wilkins v. Gaddy (2010), Davis v. Rennie (2001)
10 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Graham v. Connor · Whitley v. Albers · Hudson v. McMillian
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in a good faith effort to maintain or restore discipline.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sharon Carr, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Joshua Morgan, Deceased v. V. S. Deeds, Individually and as an Agent of the State of West Virginia Howard E. Hill, Jr., as Superintendent of the West Virginia State Police, in His Official Capacity State of West Virginia, and T.D. Bradley, Individually and as an Agent of the State of West Virginia, Sharon Carr, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Joshua Morgan, and Joshua Morgan, Deceased v. T.D. Bradley, Individually and as an Agent of the State of West Virginia Howard E. Hill, Jr., as Superintendent of the West Virginia State Police, in His Official Capacity State of West Virginia · 577 F. Supp. 2d 790 - Short v. Greene“[E]xcessive force claims of pretrial detainees are governed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sharon Carr, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Joshua Morgan, Deceased v. V. S. Deeds, Individually and as an Agent of the State of West Virginia Howard E. Hill, Jr., as Superintendent of the West Virginia State Police, in His Official Capacity State of West Virginia, and T.D. Bradley, Individually and as an Agent of the State of West Virginia, Sharon Carr, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Joshua Morgan, and Joshua Morgan, Deceased v. T.D. Bradley, Individually and as an Agent of the State of West Virginia Howard E. Hill, Jr., as Superintendent of the West Virginia State Police, in His Official Capacity State of West Virginia · Young v. Prince George's County“[w]hen prison officials maliciously and sadistically use force to cause harm, contemporary standards of decency always are violated. [Citation omitted.] This is true whether or not significant injury is evident. Otherwise, the Eighth Amendment would permit any physical punishment, no matter how diabolic or inhuman, inflicting less than some arbitrary quantity of injury. *** The Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual” punishments necessarily excludes from constitutional recognition de minimis uses of physical force, provided that the use of force is not of a sort “ ‘repugnant to the conscience of mankind.’ ” *** [T]he blows directed at Hudson, which caused bruises, swelling, loosened teeth, and a cracked dental plate, are not de minimis for Eighth Amendment purposes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.