Davis v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
157 F.3d 1003 · 1998
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Geiger v. Jowers (2005), Mark Anthony Harris Michael Hegmann Janet Boyd Rose James (1999)
18 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Wilson v. Seiter · Hudson v. McMillian · Hutto v. Finney · Spears v. Ol McCotter · Thompkins v. Belt
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he length of confinement cannot be ignored in deciding whether the confinement meets constitutional standards. A filthy, overcrowded cell ... might be tolerable for a few days and intolerably cruel for weeks or months.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alexander“A complaint lacks an arguable basis in law if it is based on an indisputably meritless legal theory, such as if the complaint alleges violation of a legal interest which clearly does not exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“minimal civilized measure of life's necessities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gates v. Cook
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.